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Sums with Excluded Digits
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Indexed Probability Table
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Pattern matching
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Make a Palindrome Number
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Trimming Spaces
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Counting Money
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Pangrams!
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Cell joiner
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Nearest Numbers
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Sort a list of complex numbers based on far they are from the origin.
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Remove the vowels
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Find state names that start with the letter N
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Calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings
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Given two arrays, find the maximum overlap
Given two (integer) arrays s1 and s2, create a new array s3 which is as short as possible and contains both arrays. #1 s1 = [...

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Connect Four Win Checker
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four Connect Four> is a game where you try to get four pieces in a row. For this problem, ...

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Target sorting
Sort the given list of numbers |a| according to how far away each element is from the target value |t|. The result should return...

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Knight's Tour Checker
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It dseon't mettar waht oedrr the lrettes in a wrod are.
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Remove the polynomials that have positive real elements of their roots.
The characteristic equation for a dynamic system is a polynomial whose roots indicate its behavior. If any of the roots of the p...

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Prime factor digits
Consider the following number system. Calculate the prime factorization for each number n, then represent the prime factors in a...

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Mandelbrot Numbers
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Renaming a field in a structure array
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De-dupe
Remove all the redundant elements in a vector, but keep the first occurrence of each value in its original location. So if a =...

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DNA N-Gram Distribution
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Find the peak 3n+1 sequence value
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Replace NaNs with the number that appears to its left in the row.
Replace NaNs with the number that appears to its left in the row. If there are more than one consecutive NaNs, they should all ...

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Balanced number
Given a positive integer find whether it is a balanced number. For a balanced number the sum of first half of digits is equal to...

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Read a column of numbers and interpolate missing data
Given an input cell array of strings s, pick out the second column and turn it into a row vector of data. Missing data will be i...

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Kaprekar Steps
6174 is the Kaprekar constant. All natural numbers less than 10,000 (except some with same digits) can be reduced to 6174 in the...

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