Problem 79. DNA N-Gram Distribution

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E Chang on 22 Oct 2018

It should be noted that spaces should be ignored or else test suites 3 and 5 fail.

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Ramoflaple on 28 Jul 2015

good use of 'hankel' function

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danteliujie on 23 Apr 2019

cool solution

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Claudio Gelmi on 28 Feb 2013

Sorry about this, but I got stuck and I want to learn how to do it. After looking at several solutions, I found my mistake and was able to create my own solution :)

Yao-Siang Su on 8 Dec 2013

What happens if the test suite changed in the future?

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Gwendolyn Fischer on 11 Dec 2012

This solution is not correct in general, as the way of using hankel here, generates n-1 fake fragments

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Peter Wittenberg on 31 Mar 2012

Clever usage of the Hankel matrix. I don't automatically think of the Hankel for this application, but it really works well. Thanks - I've learned something

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David Young on 2 Feb 2012

What's the point of a 'solution' like this? It passes the test suite, but in what way was it interesting for you to write it?

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