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Indexed Probability Table
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Counting Sequence
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QWERTY coordinates
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Make a Palindrome Number
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Pattern matching
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First N Perfect Squares
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Back to basics 8 - Matrix Diagonals
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All capital?
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Return the first and last character of a string
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Lightning strike distance: Writing a function
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Solve the Sudoku Row
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surface of a spherical planet
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Trimming Spaces
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Counting Money
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Replace NaNs with the number that appears to its left in the row.
Replace NaNs with the number that appears to its left in the row. If there are more than one consecutive NaNs, they should all ...

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Return 1 if the input is sorted from highest to lowest, 0 if not. Example: 1:7 -> 0 [7 5 2] -> 1

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Quote Doubler
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Remove all the consonants
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Find the longest sequence of 1's in a binary sequence.
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Nearest Numbers
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Love triangles
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Sum of diagonal of a square matrix
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Back to basics 6 - Column Vector
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Pizza value using expression with parentheses
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