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Mr. Pyramidad & Ms. Whissy Bolower
Businessman Mr. B. M. Pyramidad was drinking with his new girlfriend Ms. Whissy Bolower. He disclosed to her that he has an ille...

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Compress strings (not springs)
Please remove excess space, limit one space between others, and no space before punctuation marks. * For example, 'Trendy , ...

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Dick Van Dyck?
* Not the celebrity, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke Dick Van Dyke>, * this problem relates to balanced strings of...

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Function Sniffer
* Given a string, * find out which built-in functions are present, * output a simple string, * that has sorted and unique ...

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Function Sniffer
* Given a string, * find out which built-in functions are present, * output a simple string, * that has sorted and unique ...

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Looking for Squares
Need n squares that equal one square all together, none zero, none fractured. For example, calling squares(2) should output [16...

14 years ago | 1 | 31 solvers

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Looking for Squares
Need n squares that equal one square all together, none zero, none fractured. For example, calling squares(2) should output [16...

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Project Euler: Problem 7, Nth prime
By listing the first six prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13, we can see that the 6th prime is 13. What is the Nth prime nu...

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Hackathon: the beginnings
I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10000... can you guess what this number is? *Description* The test suite has rando...

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Einsteinium-253 decay
Radioactive Einsteinium-253 has a half-life of 1,768,608 seconds. Given 1000mg of Einsteinium-253 at t=0 days, how much is lef...

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letter yes yes & letter no no
Split a string into two strings, first string has all alphabetic letters, next string has all the rest, keep the order please, o...

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letter yes yes & letter no no
Split a string into two strings, first string has all alphabetic letters, next string has all the rest, keep the order please, o...

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Scrabble Scores
Given a word, determine its score in <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble Scrabble>. The input string will always be provide...

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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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Project Euler: Problem 10, Sum of Primes
The sum of the primes below 10 is 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 17. Find the sum of all the primes below the input, N. Thank you <http:/...

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Project Euler: Problem 6, Natural numbers, squares and sums.
The sum of the squares of the first ten natural numbers is, 1^2 + 2^2 + ... + 10^2 = 385 The square of the sum of the first ...

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Renaming a field in a structure array
MATLAB has a <http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/setfield.html setfield> and a <http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref...

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Implement a ROT13 cipher
Replace each character in string s1 with the character that is shifted 13 positions from it (wrap back to the beginning if neces...

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resistor ladder
* You have a bunch (an odd number N) of identical resistors (each R ohms), a good battery (V volts), and a high impedance voltme...

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resistor ladder
* You have a bunch (an odd number N) of identical resistors (each R ohms), a good battery (V volts), and a high impedance voltme...

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Grandpa's telescope
Two grandkids Dorothy and Benjamin are sharing a telescope made by their grandpa, who used an old lens of spectacles as the obje...

14 years ago | 0 | 27 solvers

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swap sign sum & multiply castles
* It is an easy problem, if you know the answer. * Given a square matrix of NxN ordinary numbers. * Initially place N identi...

14 years ago | 4 | 227 solvers

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exactly?
given two strings of numeric expressions such as '1-7/14' and '11/22+0.2^2', return 1 if they are numerically exactly equal othe...

14 years ago | 1 | 58 solvers

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Grandpa's telescope
Two grandkids Dorothy and Benjamin are sharing a telescope made by their grandpa, who used an old lens of spectacles as the obje...

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count any radix?
given radix r(2-9), digts d(1-4), give all possible strings in sorted order. for example, if r=2, d=2, then output {'00' '01' '1...

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count any radix?
given radix r(2-9), digts d(1-4), give all possible strings in sorted order. for example, if r=2, d=2, then output {'00' '01' '1...

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swap sign sum & multiply castles
* It is an easy problem, if you know the answer. * Given a square matrix of NxN ordinary numbers. * Initially place N identi...

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Project Euler: Problem 2, Sum of even Fibonacci
Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 te...

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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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Drying sweater?
* A sweater is revolving in a slow low power dryer and losing moisture at any moment at the constant rate 100% of its current mo...

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