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Re: How to find the index of a maximal element in a list?

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• Subject: [mg72962] Re: [mg72911] How to find the index of a maximal element in a list?
• From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:34:40 -0500 (EST)
• Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net

Last[Ordering[listName]]


Bob Hanlon

---- Valter Sorana <vsorana at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> I may have a mental block, but I cannot find anything better than
> 
> Position[listName,Max[listName]]
> 
> that traverses the list twice - once to find the maximum and once to find where it is.
> 
> Isn't there a way to get both the index and the max value in one go?
> 
> (of course one could write a loop that does this, but I want to avoid loops)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Valter.
>