Re: Find index of maximal element in multi-dimensional array
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- Subject: [mg73521] Re: [mg73492] Find index of maximal element in multi-dimensional array
- From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:41:48 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 20, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Andrew Moylan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here's a two-dimensional array of numbers:
>
> z = Table[Random[], {5}, {6}]
>
> What's an efficient way of finding the index of the maximal element of
> z? Here's one way:
>
> Last[Sort[Flatten[MapIndexed[{#2, #1} & , z, {2}], 1],
> OrderedQ[{#1[[2]], #2[[2]]}] & ]]
>
> The output is like this:
>
> {{5, 4}, 0.921344}
>
> But it's so untidy. Any better ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
Here is a newbie approach:
Position[z, Max[Flatten[z]]]
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