Unique: Difference between revisions

The following example shows why we must be careful about how cells are matched when tolerant comparison is involved. Here we produce a vector in which the first and second elements match, as do the second and third, but the first and third elements do not! Unique produces an array Z such that each element of the original array matches at least one element of Z, but a less careful definition (for example, excluding every element which matches an earlier one) would fail to satisfy this property.