Problem 37. Pascal's Triangle

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 26 Jan 2012

the last assertion is wrong

Jim Hokanson on 26 Jan 2012

Oops, I guess I commented in the solution, not the problem. (What's the difference????) They should check if their answer is symmetrical, which it isn't, so their solution must be wrong regardless of subsequent values

Ned Gulley on 26 Jan 2012

I've removed the last assertion and rescored. Thanks for the note.

Austin Evans on 26 Nov 2018

fun!

Darshan Vijayaraghavan on 25 Jun 2020

Fun!!

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Solution 9676343

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wenyue hu on 3 Nov 2022

I feel the code of this problem is not difficult. However, if we are not familiar with the properties of Pascal's Triangle, it needs to take more time.

Solution 1877879

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Rudolf Csikja on 18 Jul 2019

a nice one-liner, again

Solution 1430692

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GrauImLicht on 1 Feb 2018

Easy, but I enjoyed it nevertheless.

Solution 1269017

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Jens Christiansen on 15 Sep 2017

Used expm but the numbers didn't equal until I wrapped with int16.

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Informaton on 21 May 2017

using convolution

Solution 778649

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Brian Butler on 14 Nov 2015

Size is 26. How do you get any less?

Matthew Dvorsky on 25 Mar 2016

"y = arrayfun(@nchoosek, repmat(n, 1, n + 1), 0:n)" gives a score of 23

Yong Chiang Pin on 28 Dec 2016

Good Qeustion

Solution 592079

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Joseph Laub on 5 Mar 2015

Why won't syms work? I can run this in MATLAB and it outputs the correct pascal line given n.

Solution 248401

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Hai on 23 May 2013

using cell

Solution 181535

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Youssef Khmou on 25 Dec 2012

We used a subfunction Cpn(n,p)
Y=factorial(p)/(factorial(n)*factorial(p-n)) instead of the function "nchoosek" .

Solution 49074

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Selvaraaju Murugesan on 23 Feb 2012

When I submitted the solution "y=round((2^n)*binopdf(0:n,n,0.5));" cody test aborted by saying "binopdf" is an undefined function. Strange !!

William Smith on 25 Sep 2012

binopdf is part of the statistics toolbox, not core Matlab.

Solution 2209

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Jim Hokanson on 26 Jan 2012

How about an assertion on whether or not the sides are symmetric?
This problem's last assertion is wrong :/

isequal(correct(1:27),correct(54:-1:28))

At first I thought it was an issue with accuracy on my end ...

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