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Re: All componens different

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  • Subject: [mg112006] Re: All componens different
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:14:01 -0400 (EDT)

On 8/23/10 at 2:51 AM, weh at snafu.de (Dr. Wolfgang Hintze) wrote:

>Given a list v of natural numbers I'm looking for a function d[v_]
>that returns True if all components are different and False
>otherwise.

>One solution is

>d1[v_] := ! Or @@ Flatten[Table[v[[i]] == v[[k]], {i, 1, Length[v]},
>{k, i + 1, Length[v]}]]

>Can you find more efficient (and elegant) solutions?

The following should be more efficient:

d1[v_]:=Length[Union@v]==1



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