[TIB] Re: ti-basic Digest V2 #127
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[TIB] Re: ti-basic Digest V2 #127
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: <ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 5:36 PM
Subject: [TIB] Re: ti-basic Digest V2 #127
> On the TI-83/+, this sorts L1 and L2 in parallel, as if you were sorting
> pairs of elements indexed on the first element. That is, L2 ends up as
> {1,4,2,3}.
>
So this can be a way to figure out the index of the maximum element in a
list, then.
> Because if LHIGH was {1,2,3,4,5} and you took max(LHIGH), you would *not*
> get the highest value of LHIGH(1), LHIGH(2), LHIGH(3), LHIGH(4); instead,
> you'd get the maximum of the entire list, which would be 5. The OP asked
> about four-element maxima in particular.
>
> -Arthur
I think the sender probably meant a 4-element list, but OK.
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