Problem 42590. Divide elements by sum of elements

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Jihye Sofia Seo on 11 Feb 2017

Very nice exercise!

Justin Palaka on 26 Jun 2018

Good use of unfamiliar MATLAB functions!

ME on 9 Oct 2019

Slight error in the problem definition. The solutions require two decimal places not two significant figures!

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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 11 Sep 2015

It seems that we can't use the ans trick. It's new no ?

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 11 Sep 2015

wow, yes, it seems the last valid solution with ans trick was just a few hours ago, wonder if this is a temporary glitch or a "permanent" fix?

Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 14 Sep 2015

Yes, release 2015b is the cause of that. I can observe the same think with my update.

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