On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 12:48 PM, Shishir K. Singh wrote:
> Why not use sort on the array and get the last element which would be
> the highest??
>
> my @sorted = sort @list;
> my $max = $sort[$#sorted];
>
> Wouldn't this work ? I a not sure about the speed though!!
sorting has a best expected runtime of O(nlog(n)), finding the max item
via a linear search is O(n).
>
>
>
>> Here is a routing that i use:
> --
>> @nums = (5,6,3,7,2,9,12,46);
>> $rv = min(\@nums);
>> print "$rv\n";
>
>> ub min {
>> my($num) = @_;
>> my ($max) = shift @$num;
>> foreach $i (@$num) {
>> $max = $i if $max < $i;
>> }
>> return($max);
>> }
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Konrad Foerstner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:38 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: find biggest number
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Im looking for a method to exact the
>> biggest element (number) out of array.
>> Does anyone know a function for that?
>>
>> cu
>>
>> Konrad
>>
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