Doug Hull

Last seen: 11 maanden ago | Active since 2011

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Formerly known as MATLABDoug during my 15 year tenure at MathWorks. Now I live in Vegas, write poker books and relieve tourists of their poker money.

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Is this a valid Tic Tac Toe State?
For the game of <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe Tic Tac Toe> we will be storing the state of the game in a matrix M. ...

meer dan 7 jaar ago | 5 | 120 solvers

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Is this is a Tic Tac Toe X Win?
For the game of <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe Tic Tac Toe> we will be storing the state of the game in a matrix M. ...

meer dan 7 jaar ago | 2 | 514 solvers

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2048 tile game
The popular 2048 game has been implemented here: http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ Given the board like this: [2...

ongeveer 11 jaar ago | 2 | 9 solvers

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Get ranking of a combination looking for speed.
I have the numbers pulled without replacement from the set [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13]; They are then ordered from least to...

meer dan 11 jaar ago

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Get ranking of a combination looking for speed.
I have the numbers pulled without replacement from the set [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13]; They are then ordered from least to...

meer dan 11 jaar ago | 3 | 49 solvers

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Get ranking of a combination
I have the numbers pulled without replacement from the set [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13]; They are then ordered from least to...

meer dan 11 jaar ago

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Get ranking of a combination
I have the numbers pulled without replacement from the set [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13]; They are then ordered from least to...

meer dan 11 jaar ago | 1 | 51 solvers

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Select every other element of a vector
Write a function which returns every other element of the vector passed in. That is, it returns the all odd-numbered elements, s...

ongeveer 12 jaar ago

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Swap the first and last columns
Flip the outermost columns of matrix A, so that the first column becomes the last and the last column becomes the first. All oth...

meer dan 12 jaar ago

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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...

meer dan 12 jaar ago

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Siblings of a graphics object
Given a valid, scalar, handle of a graphical object: find the set of all objects that have the same parent as the original that...

meer dan 12 jaar ago | 1 | 15 solvers

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Siblings of a graphics object
Given a valid, scalar, handle of a graphical object: find the set of all objects that have the same parent as the original that...

meer dan 12 jaar ago

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Implement Solitaire cipher for N long deck.
Implement the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) solitaire cypher>. Given a starting permutation of numbers [1:...

bijna 13 jaar ago | 1 | 17 solvers

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Implement Solitaire cipher for N long deck.
Implement the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) solitaire cypher>. Given a starting permutation of numbers [1:...

bijna 13 jaar ago

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Flag largest magnitude swings as they occur
You have a phenomenon that produces strictly positive or negative results. delta = [1 -3 4 2 -1 6 -2 -7]; Marching thr...

bijna 13 jaar ago | 12 | 682 solvers

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How many trades represent all the profit?
Given a list of results from trades made: [1 3 -4 2 -1 2 3] We can add them up to see this series of trades made a profit ...

bijna 13 jaar ago | 12 | 605 solvers

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Given a window, how many subsets of a vector sum positive
Given a vector: [1 0 -1 3 2 -3 1] and a window of 2, A sliding window would find: 1 + 0 = 1 0 - 1 = -1 ...

bijna 13 jaar ago | 8 | 859 solvers

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Implement simple rotation cypher
If given a letter from the set: [abc...xyz] and a shift, implement a shift cypher. Example: 'abc' with a shi...

bijna 13 jaar ago | 13 | 1085 solvers

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Solitaire Cipher
Implement the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) solitaire cipher>. Since this is from Wikipedia, I am capturin...

bijna 13 jaar ago | 9 | 262 solvers

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Solitaire Cipher
Implement the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) solitaire cipher>. Since this is from Wikipedia, I am capturin...

bijna 13 jaar ago

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Steal, Share, or Catch: Tournament of Champions
I am no longer supporting this problem. No changes will be made to put more entries in the test suite, but have fun playing any...

ongeveer 13 jaar ago | 5 | 9 solvers

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Steal, Share, or Catch: Tournament of Champions
I am no longer supporting this problem. No changes will be made to put more entries in the test suite, but have fun playing any...

ongeveer 13 jaar ago

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Steal, Share, or Catch
You, I, and a few other characters are going to play a game of *Steal, Share or Catch*. We are going to play it 10,000 times vs...

ongeveer 13 jaar ago | 4 | 78 solvers

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Steal, Share, or Catch
You, I, and a few other characters are going to play a game of *Steal, Share or Catch*. We are going to play it 10,000 times vs...

ongeveer 13 jaar ago

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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...

ongeveer 13 jaar ago

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Return the first and last character of a string
Return the first and last character of a string, concatenated together. If there is only one character in the string, the functi...

ongeveer 13 jaar ago

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Cumulative probability of finding an unlikely combination
This is a supplemental problem to the <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/621-cryptomath-addition CryptoMath> ...

ongeveer 13 jaar ago | 2 | 32 solvers

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Cumulative probability of finding an unlikely combination
This is a supplemental problem to the <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/621-cryptomath-addition CryptoMath> ...

ongeveer 13 jaar ago

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Getting the absolute index from a matrix
This is a basic MATLAB operation. It is for instructional purposes. --- You may already know how to get the <http://www.ma...

ongeveer 13 jaar ago

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Getting the absolute index from a matrix
This is a basic MATLAB operation. It is for instructional purposes. --- You may already know how to get the <http://www.ma...

ongeveer 13 jaar ago | 2 | 250 solvers