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How to remove duplicate solutions (Solve)?

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• Subject: [mg91782] How to remove duplicate solutions (Solve)?
• From: Peng Yu <PengYu.UT at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:53:57 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

Solve[(x - 1)^2 == 0, x]

The above code would give me the solution
{{x -> 1}, {x -> 1}}

But one is a duplicate of the other. I'm wondering how to only produce
the unique solutions.

Thanks,
Peng

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