Problem 1779. Oh Zero Zero Zero!!!

Created by Chris E.

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Elmar Zander on 29 Mar 2017

It's "their starting position" not "there starting position"...

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Mayank Bajpai on 10 Oct 2020

Great!

keqin zhao on 16 Oct 2020

Great!

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bainhome on 22 Aug 2018

no fancy function, no eccentric useage, and problem was swiftly solved. Excellent code!

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J.R.! Menzinger on 13 Aug 2013

GREAT!!! :-)

Chris E. on 13 Aug 2013

Would of never guessed it!

Paul Berglund on 19 Aug 2013

This actually has a minor bug -- it may fail on inputs containing negative numbers, e.g. x=[1 -1], however this is simply fixable by taking abs(x).

Xiaoyi Chin on 4 Oct 2017

wonderful solution

bainhome on 23 Aug 2018

it never gets tired to watch this kinda code.

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