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

[Mirek Kwasniak]

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



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