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  • Subject: [mg2440] Re: I don't know how to ....
  • From: pehowland at taz.dra.hmg.gb (Paul E Howland)
  • Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 04:43:39 GMT
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In article <471hgv$gb3 at ralph.vnet.net>, bientin at cli.di.unipi.it (Paolo Bientinesi) writes:

|here's my problem:
|I need  a function that takea as input a list of pairs;
|the first element of every pair is a list, the second one is an integer;
|I want the function to calculate thhe
|biggest integer and to give as output the corresponding list.

Assuming your list is like:

	data = {{{1,2,3},0}, {{4,5,6},5}, {{7,8,9},3}}

then the following will work:

	In[1]:= Part[data, Position[
			Map[#[[2]]&, data],
			Max[Map[#[[2]]&, data]]
			][[1,1]], 1]
	Out[1]= {4, 5, 6}

Hope this helps,

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