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Re: Sorting of Data Lists



How about the following:

a1={1,3,8};
a2={2,4,7};

Map[Min[#]&,Transpose[{a1,a2}]]

John C. Erb

-----Original Message-----
From: CFreitas@swri.edu <CFreitas@swri.edu> To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg11047] [mg11011] Sorting of Data Lists


>I have two equal length vector sets of data.  I wish to form a third
>vector  whose elements are the minimum values from each component of
>the other two  vectors; i.e., if a(i) < b(i), then c(i) = a(i), else
>c(i) = b(i).  I have  tried many different methods within Mathematica
>3.0 and have not been  successful.  I would appreciate any suggestions
>as to how to accomplish this  task.
>Thank you.
>
>Dr. Christopher J. Freitas
>Principal Engineer - Computational Mechanics Southwest Research
>Institute
>Voice: 210-522-2137, Fax: 210-522-3042
>




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