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Woodall number
Test whether the input is a Woodall number: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodall_number> _Please do not cheat by simply chec...

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Find the peak 3n+1 sequence value
A Collatz sequence is the sequence where, for a given number n, the next number in the sequence is either n/2 if the number is e...

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High school cafeteria
Given an input vector of positive integers, return a row vector with the primes first (in increasing order) and the composites n...

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Filter AC, pass DC
Input x is the sampled signal vector, may have both AC and DC components. Output vector y should not contain any AC component. ...

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Find the palindrome
Given the string a, find the longest palindromic sub-string b. So when a = 'xkayakyy'; you should return b = 'kayak';

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Lose control
Remove all characters that are below space in ASCII value.

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Geometric series
Find the sum, given the first term t1, the common ratio r, and number of terms n. Examples If input t1=1, r=1, n=7 the...

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Cannon Ball
Given g (acceleration due to gravity) and desired altitude x, find the minimum ground velocity of a cannon ball to reach x.

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All your base are belong to us
Find the base _b_ logarithm of the input decimal number _x_. Express the output as a decimal number. The first argument is the n...

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wait for me
wait exactly x seconds please, need not be more than 2 seconds but must be accurate within say 50 milliseconds, your function mu...

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chirp again
rise frequency linearly from 0 to frequency f in 1 second and fs samples, initial amplitude must rise smoothly like an aircraft ...

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Create a cell array out of a struct
Create a cell array out of a (single) struct with the fieldname in the first column and the value in the second column: in: ...

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So many choices
For inputs _n_ and _k_ (in that order), output the number of ways that k objects can be chosen from amongst n distinct objects. ...

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Parasitic numbers
Test whether the first input x is an n-parasitic number: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_number>. ( _n_ is the second in...

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Is my wife right? Now with even more wrong husband
Again, as in "Is my wife right?" ( <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/149-is-my-wife-right> ), answer 'yes' r...

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Figurate number triangle
Check whether the input matrix is a figurate number triangle: <http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FigurateNumberTriangle.html>

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Determine if a Given Number is a Triangle Number
*Description:* Determine if the elements of an input array are triangle numbers and return the result as an array with the sa...

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Reverse Run-Length Encoder
Given a "counting sequence" vector x, construct the original sequence y. A counting sequence is formed by "counting" the entrie...

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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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Wilf-Zeilberger pairs
Take as inputs two functions _F_ and _G_, and two scalar values _n_ and _k_. Test whether the functions are candidates to be a W...

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

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Kaprekar Steps
6174 is the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6174_%28number%29 Kaprekar constant>. All natural numbers less than 10,000 (except som...

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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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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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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...

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Distance walked 3D
suppose you go from x-y-z coordinates [3,4,2] to [0,0,2] to [0,1,2] to [1,1,2], to [1,1,20] then you walked 25 units of distance...

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Longest Divisor Run
Given the vector a, find the longest run of consecutive numbers that can be evenly divided by the same number d where d > 1. ...

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Calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings
This problem description is lifted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance>. The Levenshtein distance betwee...

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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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Elapsed Time
Given two date strings d1 and d2 of the form yyyy/mm/dd HH:MM:SS (assume hours HH is in 24 hour mode), determine how much time, ...

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