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Will there be a new leader?
Simply answer the title.

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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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Scrabble Scores
Given a word, determine its score in <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble Scrabble>. The input string will always be provide...

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Maximum running product for a string of numbers
Given a string s representing a list of numbers, find the five consecutive numbers that multiply to form the largest number. Spe...

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Distance walked 2D
Suppose you go from x-y coordinates [3,4] to [0,0] to [0,1] to [1,1], then you walked 7 units of distance.

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Find the palindrome
Given the string a, find the longest palindromic sub-string b. So when a = 'xkayakyy'; you should return b = 'kayak';

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Duplicates
Write a function that accepts a cell array of strings and returns another cell array of strings *with only the duplicates* retai...

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Remove the air bubbles
Given a matrix a, return a matrix b in which all the zeros have "bubbled" to the top. That is, any zeros in a given column shoul...

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Square Diagonal
If n is the given number, then make a diagonal matrix of size 2*2 with the square of that number.

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Return elements unique to either input
Given two numeric inputs a and b, return a row vector that contains the numbers found in only a or only b, but not both. For ex...

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Find common elements in matrix rows
Given a matrix, find all elements that exist in every row. For example, given A = 1 2 3 5 9 2 5 9 3 2 5 9 ...

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Make a Palindrome Number
Some numbers like 323 are palindromes. Other numbers like 124 are not. But look what happens when we add that number to a revers...

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Given a window, how many subsets of a vector sum positive
Given a vector: [1 0 -1 3 2 -3 1] and a window of 2, A sliding window would find: 1 + 0 = 1 0 - 1 = -1 ...

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Trimming Spaces
Given a string, remove all leading and trailing spaces (where space is defined as ASCII 32). Input a = ' singular value deco...

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Find the two most distant points
Given a collection of points, return the indices of the rows that contain the two points most distant from one another. The inpu...

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Summing Digits within Text
Given a string with text and digits, add all the numbers together. Examples: Input str = '4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a...

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Implement a ROT13 cipher
Replace each character in string s1 with the character that is shifted 13 positions from it (wrap back to the beginning if neces...

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Find best placement for ordered dominoes (harder)
Given a list of ordered pairs, find the order they should be placed in a line, such that the sum of the absolute values of the d...

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Find perfect placement of non-rotating dominoes (easier)
Given a list of ordered pairs, find the order they should be placed in a line, such that the sum of the absolute values of the d...

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Scoring for oriented dominoes
Given a list of ordered pairs, and the order they should be placed in a line, find the sum of the absolute values of the differe...

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Pangrams!
A pangram, or holoalphabetic sentence, is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. Example: Input s ...

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Basic arrays operations.
Apply element-by-element binary operation 'fun' to two arrays (A and B).

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Determine if a Given Number is a Triangle Number
*Description:* Determine if the elements of an input array are triangle numbers and return the result as an array with the sa...

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No Twins?
Write a function that accepts as input a vector and returns the same vector, but retaining only the first occurrence of an eleme...

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Getting the row and column location from a matrix
This is a basic MATLAB operation. It is for instructional purposes. --- You may already know how to get <http://www.mathwo...

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Lose control
Remove all characters that are below space in ASCII value.

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Counting Sequence
Given a vector x, find the "counting sequence" y. A counting sequence is formed by "counting" the entries in a given sequence...

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Detect a number and replace with two NaN's
Write code which replaces the number 1 with two NaNs. Example X = [ 1 2 NaN 4 1 3 7 NaN 1 4 NaN 2] ...

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Back to basics 5 - Clipboard
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Copy the input string to the clipboard

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So many choices
For inputs _n_ and _k_ (in that order), output the number of ways that k objects can be chosen from amongst n distinct objects. ...

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