Re: [Wtr-general] OT: find min/max values in an array of floats

2007-05-09 Thread Chris McMahon
Neat. I guess I should have just written the code and tried it out. On 5/8/07, Bret Pettichord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris McMahon wrote: I can think of a couple of ways to do this, but they're all painful in one way or another. Ruby being Ruby, I wonder if there's some nifty

Re: [Wtr-general] OT: find min/max values in an array of floats

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: I can think of a couple of ways to do this, but they're all painful in one way or another. Ruby being Ruby, I wonder if there's some nifty shortcut. Given floats = [] floats 3.456 floats 1.53 floats 5.123 show that the least element of the array is 1.53 and the

[Wtr-general] OT: find min/max values in an array of floats

2007-05-08 Thread Chris McMahon
I can think of a couple of ways to do this, but they're all painful in one way or another. Ruby being Ruby, I wonder if there's some nifty shortcut. Given floats = [] floats 3.456 floats 1.53 floats 5.123 show that the least element of the array is 1.53 and the greatest element of the array