Problem 115. Distance walked 1D

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Ned Gulley on 27 Jan 2012

Amitava, can you give a clearer idea of what your function inputs and outputs should look like?

Oleg Komarov on 28 Jan 2012

If you leave one test the solution is simply 9. As is this submission is very poor.

Franck Dernoncourt on 28 Jan 2012

Needs generalization and a larger test suite.

Philip on 31 Jan 2012

This is a pretty good idea for a problem but it's *very* poorly stated.

Ned Gulley on 2 Feb 2012

I cleaned up the problem statement and added a few more tests.

Mahesh on 2 Apr 2013

good idea...

Daniel Pereira on 15 Apr 2013

Very good problem. I had to solve the same one to determine whether a signal was oscillating or stable.

Anders Edfors Vannevik on 10 Jun 2013

Interesting problem

Venkatapathi on 31 Dec 2013

nice problem

vahid simintan on 8 Apr 2016

nice...

Shane Murphy on 26 Apr 2017

Great problem!

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Abdul Muneeb on 26 May 2019

i solved it but its size is 62

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vijaylaxmi lendale on 21 Sep 2018

Nice Problem

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David Verrelli on 3 Sep 2018

This user (mohamed elbesealy) appears to have gamed the system, with fraudulent "likes" of this unremarkable solution submitted by 'sock-puppet' accounts. —DIV

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Uttam Landage on 25 Mar 2016

This gives expected results, but still not accepted. wht is the issue. pls comment

Tim on 25 Mar 2016

Your function is named abc--the test suite wants it to be named your_fcn_name.

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Md Tariqul Islam on 25 Nov 2015

What's the wrong with this solution? It works perfectly on the Matlab R2015b.

Jan Orwat on 25 Nov 2015

sumabs is a function from Neural Network Toolbox which is not supported in Cody.

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SRUJANAV on 25 May 2015

what is the wrong in my solution?

Solution 472861

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SAMET YILDIZ on 15 Jul 2014

What is the problem with this solution? It works on matlab

Andrew Small on 17 Mar 2015

The test suite expects the function's name to be 'your_fcn_name', instead of distanceWalked. (Which would have been a much more sensible name.)

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José on 21 Feb 2014

this is working in matlab environment...i don´t get it...

Tim on 21 Feb 2014

The test suite wants the function name to be "your_fcn_name".

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Marios on 19 Feb 2014

sumabs()

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