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Re: Need efficient routine to calculate max of two arrays [message #3402]

Wed, 25 January 1995 17:07

mfishler
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Registered: October 1994

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In article <3g3p8i$1o6@cobra.aer.com>, gallery@aer.com (William O. Gallery) writes:
> Here is the problem:
>
> There are two arrays: a and b of equal length, I want to calculate
> an array c of the same length so that:
> c(i) = min(a(i),b(i))
>
> For efficiency, I want to use vectors and not a do loop.
>
> Any suggestions? This would seem to be a common enough problem,
>

For the operation stated, c = a < b will do the trick.
For max instead of min, use c = a > b .

Good luck!

==Matthew

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		Re: Need efficient routine to calculate max of two arrays By: mfishler on Wed, 25 January 1995 17:07
		Re: Need efficient routine to calculate max of two arrays By: pa64 on Thu, 26 January 1995 06:25
		Re: Need efficient routine to calculate max of two arrays By: thompson on Wed, 25 January 1995 09:01
		Re: Need efficient routine to calculate max of two arrays By: kucera on Wed, 25 January 1995 09:17
		Re: Need efficient routine to calculate max of two arrays By: karsten on Tue, 24 January 1995 23:55
		Re: Need efficient routine to calculate max of two arrays By: kommers on Tue, 24 January 1995 18:45
		RE: Need efficient routine to calculate max of two arrays By: mallozzi on Tue, 24 January 1995 17:29
		Re: Need efficient routine to calculate max of two arrays By: dan on Tue, 24 January 1995 15:12

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