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Find best domino orientation
Given a list of pairs, find the orientation they should be placed in a line, such that the sum of the absolute values of the dif...

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Choose the best fitting dominoes
You will be given a cell array of nx2 matrices. Choose one row from each matrix. These are the ordered pairs that will be placed...

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Find best placement for ordered dominoes (harder)
Given a list of ordered pairs, find the order they should be placed in a line, such that the sum of the absolute values of the d...

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Find perfect placement of non-rotating dominoes (easier)
Given a list of ordered pairs, find the order they should be placed in a line, such that the sum of the absolute values of the d...

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Scoring for oriented dominoes
Given a list of ordered pairs, and the order they should be placed in a line, find the sum of the absolute values of the differe...

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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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Counting in Finnish
Sort a vector of single digit whole numbers alphabetically by their name, in Finnish. See the Wikipedia page for <http://en.wik...

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Word Counting and Indexing
You are given a list of strings, each being a list of words divided by spaces. Break the strings into words, then return a maste...

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Find state names that start with the letter N
Given a list of US states, remove all the states that start with the letter N. If s1 = 'Alabama Montana Nebraska Vermont Ne...

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Nearest Numbers
Given a row vector of numbers, find the indices of the two nearest numbers. Examples: [index1 index2] = nearestNumbers([2 5 3...

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Remove all the words that end with "ain"
Given the string s1, return the string s2 with the target characters removed. For example, given s1 = 'the main event' your ...

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Fibonacci sequence
Calculate the nth Fibonacci number. Given n, return f where f = fib(n) and f(1) = 1, f(2) = 1, f(3) = 2, ... Examples: Input...

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Angle Between Analog Clock Hands
Given a datetime variable t, return the angle (in degrees) between the hour and minute hands of an analog clock at the time repr...

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Triangle Coordinates
Given a natural number n, return two -element vectors, x and y, containing the coordinates of a triangular arrangement of points...

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Extract the Acrostic Message
An acrostic cipher is a way of embedding one message within another by taking the first (or last) word of each line. Given a str...

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Boustrophedon
Given a vector v and a positive integer n, return an m-by-n matrix containing the elements of v row-wise, alternating left-to-ri...

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Create block matrix of integers (j+k-1) - Part II
Given m, n, p, and q, create an m-by-n matrix made up of submatrices, each sized p-by-q (if possible - the last row and column o...

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Create block matrix of integers (j+k-1) - Part I
Given m, n, p, and q, create a matrix of m-by-n blocks (submatrices), each sized p-by-q. The elements of the (j,k)th block all h...

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Dartboard Average II
A dartboard arranges the numbers 1 to 20 such that each value is typically flanked by quite different values - for example, 20 i...

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Dartboard Average I
A dartboard arranges the numbers 1 to 20 such that each value is typically flanked by quite different values - for example, 20 i...

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Possible Rugby Scores
Given a natural number s (> 4), representing a rugby team's score, return an n-by-3 matrix representing all n possible combinati...

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Split Even Number Into Two Primes
Given an even whole number n (> 2), return a 2-element vector of primes, p, such that p(1) + p(2) = n. The elements of p should ...

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Determine if Input is Oddish or Evenish (Odd/Even Sum of Digits)
Given a positive integer n, determine whether n is "oddish" or "evenish" - that is, whether the sum of the digits of n is odd or...

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Estimating Euler's (Oi-ler-z) Number
Euler's number is an irrational constant given by Starting with x=0, count the number of times you can add a uniformly distrib...

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Next Tribonacci Number
The "Tribonacci" sequence is an extension of the idea of the Fibonacci sequence: That is, each new term is the sum of the thr...

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Generate Tribonacci Sequence
The "Tribonacci" sequence is an extension of the idea of the Fibonacci sequence: That is, each new term is the sum of the thr...

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Generate Pascal's Triangle Matrix
Pascal's triangle is an arrangement of numbers where each value is the sum of the values adjacent to it in the previous row: ...

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Interpolated Value Between Two Points
Given two points, and , a new location x, and a method "linear" or "cubic", return the value of a linear or cubic interpolant t...

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A Binary Search
One way to locate a target value in a sorted array, is to use a binary search algorithm. Here, you test if the midpoint in the a...

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Where the Four Corners Am I? (Vectorized)
NOTE: this problem is intended to build on problem #55960 ("Where the Four Corners Am I?"). You may wish to solve that problem f...

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