Problem 532. Return unique values without sorting

Created by Aurelien Queffurust

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 27 Mar 2012

perhaps you should specify that y is in the order of the first occurence of each unique element of x

Peter Wittenberg on 6 Oct 2012

This would be a better problem if unique and sort functions were not allowed

Jihye Sofia Seo on 10 Feb 2017

Nice problem!

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yurenchu on 7 Jun 2017

Solution without using sort(.) or unique(.) .

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yurenchu on 7 Jun 2017

Solution without using sort(_) or unique(_) .

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Mark on 1 Jun 2012

Note 1) this solution does not use sort() anywhere :) 2) the more elegant "stable" is not available for unique in pre-2012 MATLAB.

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