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Monday Math Madness #33: Prime Factorization

We would like to announce that the next iteration of Monday Math Madness will be the final contest that will be hosted at Blinkdagger. We might potentially continue the tradition, and focus more on MATLAB type problems, and calling the event Monday MATLAB Madness. But for now, we would like to thank everyone [...]

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MMM #32 Winner, Bhaskar Bhattacharya!!!

MMM #32 Winner

The winner for this edition of MMM is Bhaskar Bhattacharya. Although the problem seemed quite simple, it was in fact a pretty complex problem! As you can already probably guess, the answer was NOT that the two plots of land are equal. You can view the problem statement here.
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MATLAB

MATLAB - Data Mining in MATLAB

Besides the internal blogs over at The MathWorks website, there are a few hidden gems out there that don’t get as much recognition. One of these blogs is William Dwinnel’s MATLAB blog, Data Mining in MATLAB. We’ve actually been aware of Will’s site for quite some time now. In fact, he even [...]

Data Processing, MATLAB

MATLAB - Exporting Data using XLSWRITE

Microsoft Excel is a common data format, so it’s a good idea to learn how to work with it in the MATLAB environment. Exporting data to the Excel format can be incredibly easy, but there are also some nuances that will be discussed. There are a couple of ways to export data [...]

MATLAB

Blinkdagger joins The MathWorks Book Program

In early March, we submitted an application to The MathWorks Book Program in hopes that The MathWorks would lend their support on a book project that we had in mind. On April 3rd, we received an e-mail from the The MathWorks Book Program that accepted our application!
What exactly is The MathWorks Book Program?
The MathWorks [...]

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