Problem 51. Find the two most distant points
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More easy that it seems.
You need to specify "Euclidean" distance :-)
Good problem, not too hard but required thinking
Please add the next test :
p = [0,0;
2,1;
2,6;
1,6];
ix_correct = [1 3];
assert(isequal(mostDistant(p),ix_correct))
The solutions of the form:
[~,indx]=max(dist(p'));
unique(indx)
will fail, the last line will return an extra index [1,3,4] instead of just [1,3]
refer to
Convex Hull therom and the Graham's Scan method
+1
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hehe, just trying to see if they have any hidden tests for the code.
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Since yesterday, I submit the solution ,and it always shows "
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I don't know how to deal with it?
You should be able to submit solutions now. Sorry for the inconveniene.
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no function squareform either... pffff
Cody utilizes vanilla MATLAB (no toolboxes).
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Why is there "undefined function 'dist' for input arguments of type 'double'."? Works on my machine (and online matlab too)
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I solved the problem by an tedious approach.
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remove ' diff ',but adds size -_-
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:)))))
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I am using matlab2010 but dist function is not available in it. Can you tell me how and where can I use this?
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Without dist, but with str2num
I think it works w/ just x*[1;i] . No need to convert from a string.
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i'm not sure this can always get the right answer,
so i need more debugging.
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what is 'i'? This is strange but works.
@Claudia, "i" is the imaginary number sqrt(-1). Unless you overwrite it, it's always available to you in MATLAB without needing to declare it.
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Excuse me?
This solution works fine, but requires the stats toolbox to function!
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I dont get whay sort(unique(ix)) will give you the location of the two points. it is wrong for these points (0.9631 0.5468),(0.5211 0.2316),(0.4889,0.6241),(0.6791 0.3955),(0.3670 0.9890),
sort(unique(ix)) will return [1 2 5].
I think this solution is not right
I agree.
there may be something out of word,
if i put:
p =[1 0; 0 1;0 0; 1/sqrt(2) 1/sqrt(2) ]
your command would not right,
but 'unique' is very admirable.
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This is the smallest solution not to use "dist," which is not in core Matlab. Nicely done!
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I don't know why Cody allows answers which depend on toolboxes. The whole point should be to write one's own "distance" function.
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Hard to believe you let 'dist' in but not 'pdist'.
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pdist is not allowed!
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I find this a little bit unfair: dist is a neural network toolbox function. It is not available in MATLAB core, and the problem does not specify this toolbox is needed.
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Shame on me...
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