From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Dec  6 14:33:13 2001
Subject: Re: ponter or index
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>
To: helwig at geo dot uni-koeln dot de, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:33:01 -0500

octave> help min
...
   If called with two output arguments, also returns the index of the
minimum value(s). Thus,
     [x, ix] = min ([1, 3, 0, 2, 5])

returns X = 0 and IX = 3.

Paul Kienzle
pkienzle at users dot sf dot net

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:24:57PM -0600, Stefan L. Helwig wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> can anybody help me with the following problem?
> 
> Iwant to know at what position in a vector is the minimum. The minimum can 
> easily be found by min() but how do I find out at which position the minimum 
> is. I did not find any documentation on pointers.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 	Stefan
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