Re: max() and min() of nan/inf

[Joao Cardoso]

Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 01:25:23PM +0300, Olli Saarela wrote:
> [...]
> > If, in your particular Octave calculation, you wish to take the minimum
> > (maximum) of the non-NaN values in a vector, please replace all the NaN
> > values with +Inf (-Inf) before calling min (max).
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it's much simple to use somthing like
> 
>    max( x( finite( x ) ) )
>    min( x( finite( x ) ) )
> 
> Mirek

Thanks. But using this with matrices is a bit more complicated, even
with fortran indexing.

I want to apologize for my stupid question and the emphasis that I gave
to it; I had not sleep that night, and you paid for it. Sorry,

Joao

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