Problem 645. Getting the indices from a vector

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goc3 on 18 Nov 2016

I added six more test cases.

Nguyen Huu Hung on 14 Sep 2019

hay

Kerem Kutan on 12 Jun 2020

kinda easy

Miriam Sánchez Fernández on 7 Nov 2020

It's easy with function "find"

Benjamin Hoehne on 1 Dec 2020

use "find"

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Kossel E. LEGUEZIM on 25 Jun 2021 at 0:27

Nice problem!

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john perkins on 4 May 2021

very cool problem

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TIMOTHY PIERGIOVANNI on 21 Apr 2021

find() function

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Qingyin Zhang on 29 Nov 2020

out=find(vec>thresh);

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Ahsan Naseer on 15 Sep 2018

my solution is incorrect.how would i get the exact solution?

Tavish Pattanayak on 8 May 2020

You can ask in the matlab center

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