Problem 307. First non-zero element in each column

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Ned Gulley on 5 Apr 2012

I fixed the test. There was no assert statement.

Dyuman Joshi on 25 Nov 2020

Needs more test cases

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Solution 1844328

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Qiaoli Xie on 10 Jun 2019

The test is wrong, the right answer is y_correct = [2 1 3 2];

Solution 1498007

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Michael Poppo on 19 Apr 2018

solution is incorrect

Victor Gonzalez on 21 Jun 2018

Not really, we need to determine the first non-zero element in each column, not row.

Solution 600567

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Elmar Zander on 3 Mar 2017

The problem is pretty stupid, if there's only one test case. Then you can just return the correct result for this test case, without really computing anything (which is what the "best" solution to this problem does.

Solution 600565

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Xiaoyi Chin on 19 Sep 2017

the best answer ! thanks

Solution 133597

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Peter Wittenberg on 2 Sep 2012

It looks like I forgot to put in size(x,2) instead of 4. Apparently the test suite didn't check that.

Solution 40473

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 14 Feb 2012

yup, definitely an issue...

Solution 40471

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 14 Feb 2012

houston we have a problem...

Solution 38585

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Julio on 13 Feb 2012

Even you!

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