Problem 576. Return elements unique to either input

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Ned Gulley on 12 Apr 2012

Your description says the inputs will be vectors, but your test suite includes matrices.

@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 13 Apr 2012

James on 17 Apr 2012

Apologies for the incorrect terminology. The description has been updated.

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Kiam Heong Kwa on 3 Jun 2021 at 8:44

The requirement that redundant elements should be recorded only once should be part of the statement of the problem. Otherwise, Test 6 fails.

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Bhaskar R on 16 Aug 2018

Test suit is giving error even though logic is working

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Bhaskar R on 13 Aug 2018

Test suite is not properly managed. I am getting the correct result for the Solution 1607662

Solution 1042208

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Anurag Kotha on 1 Nov 2016

Hello, there is a problem with test suits 3, 5 and 6.
Please correct them.

Anurag Kotha on 2 Nov 2016

Never mind, my result was not a row vector.

Solution 103996

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Noah on 28 Jun 2012

When I run this solution in my local workspace, I pass... More investigation to be done.

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