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From: berke@CS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: most-frequent item in a list ?
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Date: 1 Feb 88 05:18:53 GMT
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Reply-To: berke@CS.UCLA.EDU (Peter Berke)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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What is the simplest, fastest, etc., expression you know to
compute the most-frequently occurring item in a vector?

That is, I guess, the mode?

      mode 4 5 6 5 4 5  
5

Thank you for your suggestions.  If  you post to news group, please
copy my address by mail as I don't get to newsgroups very often anymore.

Thank you,

Peter Berke