Problem 229. Fizz Buzz

Created by Richard Alcock

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Matthew Eicholtz on 5 Jul 2013

I would suggest trying not to give away a solution within the test suite.

bainhome on 5 May 2015

wouldn't be better to remove TestSuite's case6:the empty matrix? it make arrayfun more suitable.

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bainhome on 5 May 2015

simple and nice!

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Vincent on 9 Feb 2012

The problem description is a little misleading in stating that the input will contain positive, non-zero integers. Why include an empty array in the test suite?

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