How to identify duplicate rows in a matrix?

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I have a matrix like the below. It could have millions of rows.
A = [Year, Month, Day, Time, Lon, Lat, A, B, C;
2005, 3, 7, 11:30am, -120, 39.5, 20, 31, 5;
...
... ];
What I want to do is to identify rows with duplicates defined as:
Time = datenum(Year, Month, Day) + Time/24;
Time1 - Time2 < (1/24/60)*30 % less than 30 mins
Lon1 - Lon2 < 0.5
Lat2 - Lat2 < 0.5
For each identified duplicate pair (e.g., Row 15 and Row 6000 are duplicates), I would hope to have two rows in a new matrix:
Year1, Month1, Day1, ... (Row #15)
Year2, Month2, Day2, ... (Row #6000)
Many thanks for any tips!

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 16 Mar 2020
Try the unique() function. After finding unique rows, then you might want to use the setdiff() function. If you still have trouble, attach a short version of your A with some duplicate rows so people can do it for you.

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