Re: Greatest element in list
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg30486] Re: [mg30474] Greatest element in list
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 04:05:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 03:15 PM, Oliver Friedrich wrote: > Hi, > > what's the best way to get the position of the greatest number in list > of > reals? I've tried > > Position[#,Max[#]]&list > > but surprisingly, it doesn't work all the time, sometimes it returns an > empty list. How is that, because a theorem says that a non empty set of > real > numbers must have at least one biggest element. So Max[#] can't be > empty. > > Any solutions ? > > Oliver Friedrich > > > Andrzej Kozlowski Toyama International University JAPAN http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/