Problem 1634. Kurchan Square - Evaluation Function

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Richard Zapor on 13 Jun 2013

Incredible usage of anonymous function, arrayfun, and a very novel method to evaluate the Max-Min of an array being generated.

J.R.! Menzinger on 13 Jun 2013

Ooooooooh yeeeeeeaaaah!!

really nice!

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Richard Zapor on 14 Jun 2013

First solution using spdiags. Flexible options available.

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