Problem 985. Make a Star Pyramid

Created by HITESH TRIVEDI

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Ned Gulley on 12 Oct 2012

I cleaned up the problem statement and test suite.

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HITESH TRIVEDI on 17 Apr 2013

Hi, Can you try middle justified format of stars ?

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Duane Hanselman on 31 Dec 2012

this solution
char(10*tril(ones(n))+22);
works on R2012b but fails on Cody!

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pyramid star triangle