Paolo's question
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- Subject: [mg2394] Paolo's question
- From: wself at viking.emcmt.edu (Will Self)
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 23:24:22 -0500
Paolo asked how, given a list of pairs, each of which has a number for its second entry, to find the first entry of that pair for which the second is a maximum among all the second entries. The following gets all such first entries in case the maximum is attained more than once. In[1]:= quack={ {a,2}, {b,4}, {c,1}, {d,4} }; In[2]:= First /@ Cases[quack, {_,Max[Last /@ quack]}] Out[2]= {b, d} Will Self