(2&{./. i.@#) 3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 8 9 7 9 3 2 3 8
 0  9
 1  3
 2  0
 4  8
 5 12
 6 16
 7  0
11 18
13  0

0 {"1 original   will select the unique values, and if
1 {"1 original

is 0, there was only 1 copy of it.

Henry Rich

On 6/12/2014 1:17 PM, Marshall Lochbaum wrote:
I came across this problem and was wondering if anyone could come up
with a solution that is both elegant and fast:

Given a list of positive integers, return a mask (or index list) which
selects the first two of each unique value in the list.

Of course ~: is the solution if you only want the first value. A fast
but ugly solution using ~: is

f1 =. (] +. ~:@:(*-.)) ~:

which relies on the fact that the list is always positive. A more
general solution using key, which returns an unordered list of indices,
is

f2 =. (2&{.)^:(2<#)(<@)/.(;@:) i.@#

which isn't exactly pretty, but at least allows you to change the number
of values you want. It's also much slower than f1:

    d =. 99 , 100 + 1e7?.@$10000
    (I.@:f1 -: /:~@:f2) d
1
    6!:2 'f1 d'
0.273576
    6!:2 'f2 d'
1.08829

Any other ideas?

Marshall
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