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Knight's Tour Checker
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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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Find state names that end with the letter A
Given a list of US states, remove all the states that end with the letter A. Example: Input s1 = 'Alabama Montana Nebras...

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Prime factor digits
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Find state names that start with the letter N
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Kaprekar Steps
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It dseon't mettar waht oedrr the lrettes in a wrod are.
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Find relatively common elements in matrix rows
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Clean the List of Names
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Renaming a field in a structure array
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Find common elements in matrix rows
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Implement a ROT13 cipher
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Test for balanced parentheses
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The Goldbach Conjecture, Part 2
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Indexed Probability Table
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Elapsed Time
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De-dupe
Remove all the redundant elements in a vector, but keep the first occurrence of each value in its original location. So if a =...

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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...

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

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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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Divide by 4
Given the variable x as your input, divide it by four and put the result in y.

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Circle area using pi
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Simple equation: Annual salary
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Scoring for oriented dominoes
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Find a Pythagorean triple
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