Re: Min[], Max[]
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- Subject: [mg48356] Re: Min[], Max[]
- From: "Roger L. Bagula" <rlbtftn at netscape.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 07:17:29 -0400 (EDT)
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It seems to be setting sorting minimums
and maximums.
Numbers which everything is less than or more than , in general.
So that this null list/ null set is the reference
for the operation and the member of any set that the operation is
performed on... It is probably a standard Lisp
method that they used in making up Mathematica.
Frank Brand wrote:
> Dear newsgroup members,
>
> can anyone explain me what´s the sense in the definition of
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> Min[{}]= Infinity and Max[{}]= -Infinity
>
> Thanks in advance
> Frank
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