Re: Greatest element in list
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- Subject: [mg30499] Re: Greatest element in list
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 04:05:58 -0400 (EDT)
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Oliver,
There some brackets missing.
Please try
Position[#,Max[#]]&[list]
Position[#,Max[#],{1},1]&[list]
Will give the first position of the maximum.
If this doesn't work please post examples.
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Allan
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"Oliver Friedrich" <oliver.friedrich at tz-mikroelektronik.de> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>