Problem 53. Duplicates

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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 24 May 2014

Why not just an isequal(correct,result) in the tests?
Consequently, a lot of solutions leave duplicates in the result.

Erik Zdansky on 7 Feb 2016

How should higher multiplets be treated?

mehmet muhammet cesur on 8 Jun 2020

güzell

Ahmed Nazir 10 hours and 29 minutes ago

Useful function => unique, countcats, categorical

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https://github.com/AhmedNazir/MatlabCody/blob/master/duplicates.m

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Ahmed Nazir 10 hours and 31 minutes ago

https://github.com/AhmedNazir/MatlabCody/blob/master/duplicates.m

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Pascal Geschwill on 20 Mar 2014

That's cheating :D

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Steffen Zelzer on 31 Jan 2018

This doesn't need the first line of code at all ...

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 26 Jan 2012

ah, i didn't realize that you could leave duplicates in the final result and still have it pass the test cases; nicely done

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