Problem 32. Most nonzero elements in row

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Given the matrix a, return the index r of the row with the most nonzero elements. Assume there will always be exactly one row that matches this criterion.

Example:

 Input  a = [ 1 2 0 0 0
              0 0 5 0 0 
              2 7 0 0 0
              0 6 9 3 3 ]
 Output r is 4

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Rodolfo on 12 Mar 2013

How am I wrong here?
"a = [ ...
1 0 0;
0 0 0;
0 0 0;
0 0 0;
0 2 3];
r_correct = 5;"
My code says 2, I think it's correct, what am I missing?

Tim on 12 Mar 2013

It wants the number of the row with the most nonzeros.

Rodolfo on 12 Mar 2013

Thank you Tim! I feel like a fool, but that'll teach me to read the requirements more carefully. Hopefully.

Gabor Levai on 8 Sep 2016

Great Problem!

MEI HUEI LIM on 5 Jan 2017

nice

DilRavsh on 20 Aug 2017

Love this one

Be Matlabi on 19 Feb 2018

Piece of cake

Gani on 8 Feb 2019

nice

Alexander on 12 Feb 2019

easy :) but nice

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Olivia Li on 26 May 2019

so happy~

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BAOHUA ZHANG on 22 Oct 2018

there is a bug i the code
input a = [1 0 1 1 ; 9999 0 0 0]
output 2

BAOHUA ZHANG on 22 Oct 2018

there is a bug in the code
input a = [1 0 1 1 ; 9999 0 0 0]
output 2

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Ravi on 30 Mar 2018

r = max(sum((a==0)'));

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Dustin Jones on 12 Jul 2017

Original solution I created by digging through documentation was x=a~=0; y=sum(x,2); [M,I]=max(y); r=max(y). Solution had a size of 31 so I compressed it into it's current version.

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Jagdish Khatri on 26 May 2017

in case number 3 and 4 total number of element is also less than your correct fullest row output
How does this thing is possible

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Yoshimasa Nakatani on 11 Jan 2017

I did it!
(^^;)

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Dan Po on 24 Oct 2016

this is a terrible solution, someone help.

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Marilyn Elizabeth on 21 Mar 2016

Could you tell me how you did it?

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Nicholas Hortance on 4 Jul 2015

Once again ive used a for loop only because it seems so much simpler. The more I do these I see how each person has a different approach to a problem which I think is very cool. Thanks for the problem!

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Riazul Arefin on 20 May 2015

test suite is not ok

Solution 473067

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SAMET YILDIZ on 15 Jul 2014

what is the problem here ? it works on matlab and gives the correct row

Tim on 24 Aug 2014

2 things: You forgot to set your output (so add a line r=ix, or change the r in the first line into ix.
and you changed the function name so it doesn't recognize it.

Your solution does work.

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Wesley Allen on 18 Mar 2014

Well done.

Solution 402540

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Karthik Raja Arumugam on 12 Feb 2014

Is there any way to avoid this for loop??

Jörg on 20 May 2014

Yes, a hint: compare with zeros matrix and count (sum) the nonzero elements in this logical matrix.

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Karthik Raja Arumugam on 12 Feb 2014

Can you please tell how did you do this with the size of 10?

Christian on 14 Mar 2014

Just again the regexp Cheat, I guess!
I can't believe, that this is still working... Why don't they ban all the Cheating possibilities?
It's completely unfair, to all other players!

grotman on 19 Feb 2017

The regexp cheat kind of shadows the "normal" solutions.

zefeng chen on 26 Jun 2017

can you show that '10'?

Todd on 13 Dec 2017

I did not mean to like this, but the 'Unlike' button does not work!

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Gregor Baiker on 1 Sep 2013

looks very strange

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Alex Feinman on 13 Feb 2012

I can't believe I used a trick I learned from Javascript...

Swapnali Gujar on 8 Aug 2013

I tried to optimize my solution as much possible as I could, still my code size was 45, any idea what would be there in the leading solution of this problem which has code size as 11 ? Which trick did you use?

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