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Reverse Run-Length Encoder
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Indexed Probability Table
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Test for balanced parentheses
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Interpolator
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QWERTY coordinates
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Find relatively common elements in matrix rows
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Remove the small words from a list of words.
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Find the two-word state names
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Clean the List of Names
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Remove all the words that end with "ain"
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Extract leading non-zero digit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law Benford's Law> states that the distribution of leading digits is not random. This...

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Prime factor digits
Consider the following number system. Calculate the prime factorization for each number n, then represent the prime factors in a...

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Longest Divisor Run
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Function Iterator
Given a handle fh to a function which takes a scalar input and returns a scalar output and an integer n >= 1, return a handle f...

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Elapsed Time
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Target sorting
Sort the given list of numbers |a| according to how far away each element is from the target value |t|. The result should return...

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Determine if input is odd
Given the input n, return true if n is odd or false if n is even.

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Create times-tables
At one time or another, we all had to memorize boring times tables. 5 times 5 is 25. 5 times 6 is 30. 12 times 12 is way more th...

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Which doors are open?
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Which values occur exactly three times?
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Who Has the Most Change?
You have a matrix for which each row is a person and the columns represent the number of quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies t...

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Remove the vowels
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Nearest Numbers
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Making change
Given an amount of currency, return a vector of this form: [100 50 20 10 5 2 1 0.5 0.25 0.1 0.05 0.01] Example: Input a = ...

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