Problem 1452. Minimum Distance between two N-sided Polygons

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mohammad z on 1 Mar 2017

The test suits only examines polycell = {[0 0 5 10 10 0] [5 -1 6 -5 5 -5]}, Can anyone help please

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James on 25 Apr 2013

I find it amusing that an answer that games the problem still has a larger Cody size than the leading solution...

Marco Castelli on 26 Apr 2013

It is my way to learn something about Matlab: seeing other player's solutions. So If I cannot solve the problem (and obviously see other solutions) I use if/else.

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Richard Zapor on 25 Apr 2013

Impressive Cell array processing, complex usage, arrayfun, and function vectorization.

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