Re: neat way to program minimum of sum
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- Subject: [mg75180] Re: neat way to program minimum of sum
- From: CoolGenie <CGenie at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:37:40 -0400 (EDT)
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On 18 Kwi, 11:09, Norbert Marxer <mar... at mec.li> wrote: > f[t_] := Length@NestWhileList[( > s = s + Random []) &, s = Random[], (s < t) &] - 1 This is nice but not satisfactory. The statement is that I have the values x[1], x[2], ... given first and then based on these I want to generate the minimum (should be minimum there, not maximum). I think that the code you suggested will give different answer every time... If I'm wrong please correct me. P. Kaminski