Solved

There are 10 types of people in the world
Those who know binary, and those who don't. The number 2015 is a palindrome in binary (11111011111 to be exact) Given a year...

7 months ago

Solved

Convert given decimal number to binary number.
Convert given decimal number to binary number. Example x=10, then answer must be 1010.

8 months ago

Solved

Most nonzero elements in row
Given the matrix a, return the index r of the row with the most nonzero elements. Assume there will always be exactly one row th...

10 months ago

Solved

Back and Forth Rows
Given a number n, create an n-by-n matrix in which the integers from 1 to n^2 wind back and forth along the rows as shown in the...

10 months ago

Solved

Find the longest sequence of 1's in a binary sequence.
Given a string such as s = '011110010000000100010111' find the length of the longest string of consecutive 1's. In this examp...

10 months ago

Solved

Return the 3n+1 sequence for n
A Collatz sequence is the sequence where, for a given number n, the next number in the sequence is either n/2 if the number is e...

10 months ago

Solved

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...

10 months ago

Solved

Bullseye Matrix
Given n (always odd), return output a that has concentric rings of the numbers 1 through (n+1)/2 around the center point. Exampl...

10 months ago

Solved

Angle Between Analog Clock Hands
Given a datetime variable t, return the angle (in degrees) between the hour and minute hands of an analog clock at the time repr...

12 months ago

Solved

Balanced number
Given a positive integer find whether it is a balanced number. For a balanced number the sum of first half of digits is equal to...

12 months ago

Solved

Golomb's self-describing sequence (based on Euler 341)
The Golomb's self-describing sequence {G(n)} is the only nondecreasing sequence of natural numbers such that n appears exactly G...

12 months ago

Solved

Permute diagonal and antidiagonal
Permute diagonal and antidiagonal For example [1 2 3;4 5 6;7 8 9] -> [3 2 1;4 5 6;9 8 7] WITHOUT diag function (and variable n...

1 year ago

Solved

Nearest Numbers
Given a row vector of numbers, find the indices of the two nearest numbers. Examples: [index1 index2] = nearestNumbers([2 5 3...

1 year ago

Solved

5th Time's a Charm
Write a function that will return the input value. However, your function must fail the first four times, only functioning prope...

1 year ago

Solved

Sums of Distinct Powers
You will be given three numbers: base, nstart, and nend. Write a MATLAB script that will compute the sum of a sequence of both ...

1 year ago

Solved

The 5th Root
Write a function to find the 5th root of a number. It sounds easy, but the typical functions are not allowed (see the test su...

1 year ago

Solved

Make a vector of prime numbers
Input(n) - length of vector with prime numbers Output(v) - vector of prime numbers Example: * n=1; v=2 * n=3; v=[2 3 5...

1 year ago

Solved

Largest Twin Primes
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime Twin primes> are primes p1, p2 = p1 + 2 such that both p1 and p2 are prime numbers. Giv...

1 year ago

Solved

Find nearest prime number less than input number
Find nearest prime number less than input number. For example: if the input number is 125, then the nearest prime number whi...

1 year ago

Solved

Sophie Germain prime
In number theory, a prime number p is a *Sophie Germain prime* if 2p + 1 is also prime. For example, 23 is a Sophie Germain prim...

1 year ago

Solved

Find the next prime number
Find the next prime number or numbers for given n. For example: n = 1; out = 2; or n = [5 7]; out = [7 11]; ...

1 year ago

Solved

Mersenne Primes
A Mersenne prime is a prime number of the form M = 2^p - 1, where p is another prime number. For example, 31 is a Mersenne prim...

1 year ago

Solved

Decimation
When dealing to the Roman Army, the term decimate meant that the entire unit would be broken up into groups of ten soldiers, and...

1 year ago

Solved

(Linear) Recurrence Equations - Generalised Fibonacci-like sequences
This problem is inspired by problems <http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/2187-generalized-fibonacci 2187>, <htt...

1 year ago

Solved

Fibonacci Decomposition
Every positive integer has a unique decomposition into nonconsecutive Fibonacci numbers f1+f2+ ... Given a positive integer n, r...

1 year ago

Solved

How many Fibonacci numbers?
Find the number of unique Fibonacci numbers (don't count repeats) in a vector of positive integers. Example: x = [1 2 3 4...

1 year ago

Solved

Triangle sequence
A sequence of triangles is constructed in the following way: 1) the first triangle is Pythagoras' 3-4-5 triangle 2) the second...

1 year ago

Solved

Fibonacci-Sum of Squares
Given the Fibonacci sequence defined by the following recursive relation, * F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2) * where F(1) = 1 and F(1)...

1 year ago

Solved

Verify Law of Large Numbers
If a large number of fair N-sided dice are rolled, the average of the simulated rolls is likely to be close to the mean of 1,2,....

1 year ago

Solved

Solve a System of Linear Equations
Example: If a system of linear equations in x₁ and x₂ is: 2x₁ + x₂ = 2 x₁ - 4 x₂ = 3 Then the coefficient matrix (A) is: 2 ...

1 year ago