Problem 823. Find similar/related functions

Created by Matthew Eicholtz

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J.R.! Menzinger on 15 Nov 2012

The are more fucntions added to the "see also" of the function 'help' (maybe until the last release).

Dan on 11 Mar 2013

Update test suite

Matthew Eicholtz on 7 Jul 2013

Test suite has been updated and solutions rescored. My apologies for the inconvenience.

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