Problem 29. Nearest Numbers

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Jon on 4 Dec 2013

Best score without using Neural Net Toolbox is 38

Droopy Cee on 13 Mar 2017

123 lol.

Jiahang Li on 2 Feb 2018

It took me half an hour to solve test 4.

Chris Liu on 30 Dec 2020 at 7:03

function [index1 index2] = nearestNumbers(A)
tmp1=inf;
for i=1:length(A)-1
for j=i+1:length(A)
tmp2=abs(A(i)-A(j));
if tmp2

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Joie Barni on 31 Jul 2020

Huh, using indices within each other actually worked.

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Burak Bayram on 16 Jan 2019

Worlds longest solution winner please, cody!

Bryan Lambo on 17 Jan 2020

Wow this is long haha. Congrats!

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Alan Correa on 4 Mar 2018

This Solution works perfectly on MATLAB. Why not here? Need help

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rao marco on 20 Oct 2017

my solution passes all the tests in matlab R2011a

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DHARMASETYA dharmasetya on 31 Jul 2017

function [index1, index2] = nearestNumbers(A)

s=[1,1,Inf];
for i = 1:length(A)-1
for j= 1:length(A)-i
s1=[i,i+j,abs(A(i)-A(i+j))];
if s1(3)

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Eric Miller on 14 Jul 2017

This passed all of the test cases when using MATLAB on my computer, yet it fails here. Anyone know what's wrong with it? I'd appreciate it!

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Salvatore Lacava on 3 Jul 2017

Hard, but doable!

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Nicholas Hortance on 18 Aug 2015

I really liked this problem and although I provided a lot of code to solve it I am pleased with the thought process that took me to it.

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Raviteja on 19 Jul 2015

This solution is working on my computer.
I don't understand why it is not working

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Ingrid on 2 Jun 2015

why is this not working? gives correct solution to all test cases on my computer

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Baalzamon on 14 Dec 2012

Another unreadable statement. Does anyone else have trouble using backspace in the "comment on solution box"?

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Peter on 21 Mar 2013

This only works if you have the Neural Network Toolbox

Khaled Hamed on 22 Mar 2013

Until they are banned like other functions, many people are using these. It is interesting that only a subset of functions work.

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 22 Mar 2013

I am partial to dist, it's such a useful function...

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Dyuman Joshi on 27 Dec 2020 at 20:19

Is dist() still available on Cody?
I thought it required one of multiple toolboxes

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