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Built-in Functions

Numerical Computation

Data Manipulation

Intersection

Usage

• Intersection[, , ... ] gives a sorted list of the elements common to all the .

Notes

• If the

are considered as sets, Intersection gives their intersection.

• Intersection[

,

, ... ] can be input in StandardForm and InputForm as

... . The character

can be entered as

inter

or \[Intersection].

• The

must have the same head, but it need not be List.

• Intersection[

, ... , SameTest->test] applies test to each pair of elements in the

to determine whether they should be considered the same.

• Intersection[a, b] can be entered in StandardForm and InputForm as a

b or a \[Intersection] b.

• See Section 1.8.8.

• See also: Union, Complement.

• New in Version 1; modified in 3.

Further Examples

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