Problem 38. Return a list sorted by number of occurrences

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Chul Min Yeum on 3 Jan 2020

Good problem!

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Ionut Barbu on 13 Aug 2017

this type of hack solutions should be banned

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Jonathan on 29 Aug 2014

The behavior of accumarray has changed. In R2012b, I used I = accumarray(I.', 1); and it worked. I had to remove the transpose to pass the test suite.

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Clemens Giegerich on 19 May 2013

Interesting cody behavior by masking anonymous functions with str2num...

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Baalzamon on 14 Dec 2012

Test Suite having a hissy fit because it wanted a col not a row o_O

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