Octave has a limited set of functions for managing sets of data where a set is defined as a collection unique elements.
| create_set (x) | Function File |
Return a row vector containing the unique values in x sorted in
ascending order. For example
create_set ([ 1 2; 3, 4; 4, 2 ])
=> [ 1 2, 3, 4 ]
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| union (x y) | Function File |
Return the set of elements that are in either of the sets x and
y. For example
union ([ 1 2, 4 ], [ 2, 3, 5 ])
=> [ 1 2, 3, 4, 5 ]
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| intersection (x y) | Function File |
Return the set of elements that are in both sets x and y.
For example
intersection ([ 1 2, 3 ], [ 2, 3, 5 ])
=> [ 2 3 ]
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| complement (x y) | Function File |
Return the elements of set y that are not in set x. For
example
complement ([ 1 2, 3 ], [ 2, 3, 5 ])
=> 5
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