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Is this triangle right-angled?
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Side of an equilateral triangle
If an equilateral triangle has area A, then what is the length of each of its sides, x? <<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...

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Area of an Isoceles Triangle
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Area of an equilateral triangle
Calculate the area of an equilateral triangle of side x. <<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Equilateral-tr...

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Length of a short side
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Implement a ROT13 cipher
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Interpolator
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Test for balanced parentheses
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Maximum running product for a string of numbers
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Binary numbers
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Trimming Spaces
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Which doors are open?
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Nearest Numbers
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Return the largest number that is adjacent to a zero
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Who Has the Most Change?
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Knight's Tour Checker
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DNA N-Gram Distribution
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Kaprekar Steps
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Find the peak 3n+1 sequence value
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Renaming a field in a structure array
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Scrabble Scores
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Duplicates
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The Goldbach Conjecture, Part 2
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Remove all the words that end with "ain"
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Indexed Probability Table
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QWERTY coordinates
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