Suppose you go from position 7 to 10 to 6 to 4. Then you have walked 9 units of distance, since 7 to 10 is 3 units, 10 to 6 is 4, and 6 to 4 is 2. Total distance traveled = 3 + 4 + 2 = 9.
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Input x = [1 2 3 2] Output y is 3
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Ned Gulley
on 27 Jan 2012
Amitava, can you give a clearer idea of what your function inputs and outputs should look like?
Oleg Komarov
on 28 Jan 2012
If you leave one test the solution is simply 9. As is this submission is very poor.
Franck Dernoncourt
on 28 Jan 2012
Needs generalization and a larger test suite.
Philip
on 31 Jan 2012
This is a pretty good idea for a problem but it's *very* poorly stated.
Ned Gulley
on 2 Feb 2012
I cleaned up the problem statement and added a few more tests.
Mahesh
on 2 Apr 2013
good idea...
Daniel Pereira
on 15 Apr 2013
Very good problem. I had to solve the same one to determine whether a signal was oscillating or stable.
Anders Edfors Vannevik
on 10 Jun 2013
Interesting problem
Venkatapathi
on 31 Dec 2013
nice problem
vahid simintan
on 8 Apr 2016
nice...
Shane Murphy
on 26 Apr 2017
Great problem!
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Abdul Muneeb
on 26 May 2019
i solved it but its size is 62
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vijaylaxmi lendale
on 21 Sep 2018
Nice Problem
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David Verrelli
on 3 Sep 2018
This user (mohamed elbesealy) appears to have gamed the system, with fraudulent "likes" of this unremarkable solution submitted by 'sock-puppet' accounts. —DIV
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Uttam Landage
on 25 Mar 2016
This gives expected results, but still not accepted. wht is the issue. pls comment
Tim
on 25 Mar 2016
Your function is named abc--the test suite wants it to be named your_fcn_name.
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Md Tariqul Islam
on 25 Nov 2015
What's the wrong with this solution? It works perfectly on the Matlab R2015b.
Jan Orwat
on 25 Nov 2015
sumabs is a function from Neural Network Toolbox which is not supported in Cody.
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SRUJANAV
on 25 May 2015
what is the wrong in my solution?
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SAMET YILDIZ
on 15 Jul 2014
What is the problem with this solution? It works on matlab
Andrew Small
on 17 Mar 2015
The test suite expects the function's name to be 'your_fcn_name', instead of distanceWalked. (Which would have been a much more sensible name.)
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Marios
on 19 Feb 2014
sumabs()
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