function inconsistent = findInconsistent() data = load('house-votes-84.data', '-ascii'); inconsistent = []; ind1 = find(data(:,1)==1); ind2 = find(data(:,1)==2); for m=1:length(ind1) for n=1:length(ind2) equal = 1; for k=2:size(data,2) if data(ind1(m),k) ~= data(ind2(n),k) equal = 0; break; end; end; if equal == 1 inconsistent = [ind1(m), ind2(n)]; end; return; end; end;