Bruce Raine

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I like to solve most kinds of maths problems that I come across. I have used MATLAB for around 7 years and really enjoy programming it to solve maths and statistics problems. I hold a Masters degree entitled: Master of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (Hons). Professional Interests: Maths and Programming

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Frobenius Norm
Write your own version of Frobenius Norm without using the 'norm' function.

nästan 12 år ago

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Frobenius Norm
Write your own version of Frobenius Norm without using the 'norm' function.

nästan 12 år ago | 1 | 94 solvers

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Simple date to serial no. conversion
Convert a date string to a serial date number. For example if you take x='19-May-2001' then the result is 730990 x...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Find the definite integral of various linear functions
A definite integral had a minimum and maximum limit. When you solve this type of problem you must use both quad and the trapz fu...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Find the definite integral of various linear functions
A definite integral had a minimum and maximum limit. When you solve this type of problem you must use both quad and the trapz fu...

ungefär 12 år ago | 1 | 54 solvers

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How long do each of the stages of the rocket take to burn?
A space rocket has 3 stages: - stage 1, s1; - stage 2, s2; - stage 3, s3. If s1 burns 3 x as long as s2 which burns ...

ungefär 12 år ago | 4 | 327 solvers

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How long do each of the stages of the rocket take to burn?
A space rocket has 3 stages: - stage 1, s1; - stage 2, s2; - stage 3, s3. If s1 burns 3 x as long as s2 which burns ...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Find the nearest integer
Given a vector of integers and a real number find the closest integer. EX: >> a = [2 4 5 6 8 10]; >> b = 4.6; >> nea...

ungefär 12 år ago | 3 | 352 solvers

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Find the nearest integer
Given a vector of integers and a real number find the closest integer. EX: >> a = [2 4 5 6 8 10]; >> b = 4.6; >> nea...

ungefär 12 år ago

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How many days does the cat take to climb out of the hole?
A cat accidentally falls down a hole with sloping but rough sides. It can climb out of the hole of height h metres, but for ever...

ungefär 12 år ago | 4 | 78 solvers

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How many days does the cat take to climb out of the hole?
A cat accidentally falls down a hole with sloping but rough sides. It can climb out of the hole of height h metres, but for ever...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Penny flipping - calculate winning probability (easy)
Two players are playing a fair penny flipping game. For each flip, the winner adds one penny from the loser's collection to his/...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Sorted highest to lowest?
Return 1 if the input is sorted from highest to lowest, 0 if not. Example: 1:7 -> 0 [7 5 2] -> 1

ungefär 12 år ago

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inner product of two vectors
inner product of two vectors

ungefär 12 år ago

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Bottles of beer
Given an input number representing the number of bottles of beer on the wall, output how many are left if you take one down and ...

ungefär 12 år ago

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radius of a spherical planet
you just measured its surface area, that is the input.

ungefär 12 år ago

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Swap the input arguments
Write a two-input, two-output function that swaps its two input arguments. For example: [q,r] = swap(5,10) returns q = ...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Multiply a column by a row
* Given a column vector C and and a row vector R. * Output a matrix M. * Every column of M equals to C multiplied by correspon...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Distance walked 1D
Suppose you go from position 7 to 10 to 6 to 4. Then you have walked 9 units of distance, since 7 to 10 is 3 units, 10 to 6 is 4...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Extract leading non-zero digit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law Benford's Law> states that the distribution of leading digits is not random. This...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Replace multiples of 5 with NaN
It is required to replace all values in a vector that are multiples of 5 with NaN. Example: input: x = [1 2 5 12 10 7] ...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Will there be a new leader?
Simply answer the title.

ungefär 12 år ago

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The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
A variation of a previous Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy problem. *Inputs:* Life, the Universe, and Everything *Output:*...

ungefär 12 år ago

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Rotate a Matrix by 90 degrees
Rotate a Matrix by 90 degrees Example: If the input is: X = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...

nästan 13 år ago

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Convert from Base 10 to base 5
Convert the input number from base 10 into base 5: for example: if a(in base 10)= 5 then a(in base 5)= 10

nästan 13 år ago

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Matrix indexing with two vectors of indices
Given a matrix M and two index vectors a and b, return a row vector x where x(i) = M(a(i),b(i)).

nästan 13 år ago

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Compute a dot product of two vectors x and y
x and y are input vectors, d is a number and contains their dot product

nästan 13 år ago

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Whether the input is vector?
Given the input x, return 1 if x is vector or else 0.

nästan 13 år ago

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Is A the inverse of B?
Given a matrix A and a matrix B, is A the inverse of B? >>A=[2,4;3,5]; >>B=[-2.5,2;1.5,-1]; >>isInverse...

nästan 13 år ago | 13 | 1034 solvers

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Sum of first n terms of a harmonic progression
Given inputs a, d and n, return the sum of the first n terms of the harmonic progression a, a/(1+d), a/(1+2d), a/(1+3d),....

nästan 13 år ago