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 on 1 Oct 2020

Useful function => unique, countcats, categorical

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

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