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TRON strategy toggle
Detect whether your lightcycle is on same side of existing walls as opponents lightcycle. This function is useful in toggling a ...

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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:*...

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How many jokers?
* Given DNA codes of a group of suspects, * and a code for certain types of jokers, * Count how many jokers of that type. * ...

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Who has power to do everything in this world?
There is only one person who is older than this universe. He is Indian version of Chuck Norris.

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Breaking Out of the Matrix
Do you want to take the Red Pill, or the Blue Pill? If you take the Blue Pill, you will simply pass along to the next problem...

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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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Taylor Series
You can use a Taylor series to approximate common functions. The Taylor series for sin(x) is Using only the first several te...

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Calculate Angle From Axis
Given coordinates x and y, an axis ("X" or "Y"), and a direction ("cw" or "ccw", meaning clockwise and counterclockwise, respect...

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Hangman (easy)
What is the best letter to start a <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game) hangman> game with? You are given a cell arra...

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GJam 2014 China Rd B: Sudoku Checker
This Challenge is derived from <http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/2929486/dashboard#s=p0 GJam 2014 China Sudoku>. Large Cas...

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Check to see if a Sudoku Puzzle is Solved
*Description:* Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to make a function that checks to see if a 9x9 matrix of integer...

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Sudoku square
We have a small Sudoku square, but one number is missing. x = [ 1 5 4 8 6 3 0 9 7 ] Make a function, wher...

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You LOVES Matlab 41%
Given two strings, determine the percentage that one loves the other in the following way: YOU LOVES MATLAB there is 1 '...

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Sleeping Queens 1
My youngest daughter received a card game named Sleeping Queens for Christmas this year, and has been playing it nearly non-stop...

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Calculate the Distance to Source of Lightning
Lightning discharge heats air rapidly with lightning channels reaching temperatures of up to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (which is...

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Radiation Heat Transfer — View Factors (1)
View factors (aka configuration factors) are utilized in some radiation heat transfer models to estimate heat transfer rates bet...

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How many days?!?
Christmas is coming earlier and earlier each year. Thanks to rampant commercialism and Christmas Creep, "The Twelve Days of Chr...

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Where the Four Corners Am I?
The "Four Corners" region of the US is where Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico all meet - the only place where four states...

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Minkowski distance

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Fractal: area and perimeter of Koch snowflake
Starting from an equilateral triangle with side 's', what is the area and perimeter of Koch snowflake at n'th recursive iteratio...

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Solve the Sudoku Row
*Description* A simple yet tedious task occurs near the end of most Sudoku-solving algorithms, computerized or manual. The ta...

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Similar Triangles - find the height of the tree
Given the height, h1, of a power pole, shorter than a tree, a given distance, x2 away, please find h2, height of the tree. Pleas...

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Mechanical Advantage of a Gear Train
Calculate the mechanical advantage of a gear train. The mechanical advantage of a gear couple is given by MA = T_o/T_i where ...

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Air Mass to Star for an Observer at Mean Sea Level
Air mass is a measure of how much atmosphere light from a source above the atmosphere (eg sun, planet, star) has to travel throu...

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