Problem 713. Find the maximum number of decimal places in a set of numbers

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nguyen thai son son on 30 Sep 2019

hại não

galaxy on 23 Oct 2019

good for improve skill

goc3 on 29 Mar 2021

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Shubham Bisht on 22 Jul 2021 at 10:02

what's wrong with this solution???? one of the test suite isn't accepting this
function y = find_max_sigdec(x)
x=round((x(:)-round(x(:))),10);
y=0;
for i=1:length(x)
j=0;
while mod(x(i)*10^j,1)~=0
j=j+1;
end
y=max(y,j);
end
end