Finding duplicates without using the unique function
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I'm struggling to make a user defined function that detects duplicates within a matrix. This is what I have so far:
function bmatch = testing(data)
edges = min(data):max(data);
[counts,values] = histcounts(data, edges);
if values(counts>=2)
bmatch = 1;
else
bmatch = 0;
end
However this doesn't detect duplicates or state the number of duplicates in a given matrix. I don't understand why.
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John D'Errico
2023-5-2
Give an example of what you want to catch, since you can always convert a matrix into a vector. So a being a matrix is irrelevant.
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Walter Roberson
2023-5-2
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2023-5-2
Watch carefully:
data = [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]
edges = min(data):max(data)
[counts,values] = histcounts(data, edges)
Notice that the final count is 2 and that the vector of counts is shorter than the number of entries in edges . Read carefully about what happens in the edge cases for histcounts
Your code also has problems if the values are not all integers, or if there are non-finite values -- or if one of the values is much larger than the others. For example your code should be able to handle testing([-1e40 1e40]) without difficulty, but your code will run out of memory.
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Walter Roberson
2023-5-2
You really need to be thinking more about what the code should do if there are elements that are not integers.
Walter Roberson
2023-5-2
hint: if you sort the elements, then in the case where there are no duplicates, then there are no adjacent elements that are equal, but in the case that there are duplicates then there will be places where the adjacent elements are equal.
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