Re: Maximum in a list
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg97229] Re: Maximum in a list
- From: Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 01:01:30 -0500 (EST)
- References: <gp07ul$l0o$1@smc.vnet.net>
On Mar 8, 12:51 pm, pacot... at orange.fr (pacotomi) wrote:
> Hi,
> Suppose a list
>
> mylist={{1,2},{3,4},{8,3}}
>
> I would like to extract the element {i,j} of mylist for which j is max
> (here, it is the second one {3,4}).
>
Part[mylist, First@Ordering[mylist[[All, 2]], -1]]