Problem 47. Extract leading non-zero digit

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Ned Gulley on 29 May 2012

I added some extra test cases to fail some of the bogus answers.

Iván Quintanar on 31 Dec 2017

Amazing Law!!!!!!!!!!!!

Luyu Wang on 6 Jul 2018

I cannot understand the problem.

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Fatpuss on 14 Dec 2015

Interesting. Looks like it failed due to some rounding issue.

Solution 701765

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Swapnil Kulkarni on 16 Jul 2015

Whats wrong here ?

Solution 363899

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Jon on 4 Dec 2013

This appears to be the best solution that doesn't use regexp

Solution 319044

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Mineralter on 30 Sep 2013

A good method. num2str

Solution 113233

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Konrad on 7 Dec 2012

Sorry, I did not want to copy you! Just tried to understand what you did...

Solution 30000

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Aurelien Queffurust on 24 Feb 2012

Doesn't work if x = 0.3000

Solution 23182

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Aurelien Queffurust on 24 Feb 2012

The best solution n codesize for me and w/o cheating !

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Trung Duong on 8 Feb 2012

not fun at all :-)

Peter Wittenberg on 30 Mar 2012

bm, you have many good solutions in Cody. Why put in garbage like this?

Nigel Davies on 29 May 2012

You have just made me sad. Sorry.

@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 30 May 2012

i wrote this a long time ago (on the third day of Cody). i figured that as soon as the test suite was changed, this solution would be gone with the wind. sorry to anyone i offended :(

Solution 11826

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Aurelien Queffurust on 24 Feb 2012

Doesn't work if x = 0.3000

Solution 8808

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the cyclist on 27 Jan 2012

Not general. Solution depends on the particular test case.

Solution 2421

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Aurelien Queffurust on 24 Feb 2012

Doesn't work if x = 0.3000

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