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Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array

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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>>Isn't that what I said?  In Haskell minimum [ x | x <- s, x > minimum q ]
>
>   Yes, but it is only one possible interpretation.
>
>>I don't think that's a possible meaning unless you are assuming it's
>>badly worded.
>
>   Using what little I learned from Haskell by your expression
>   from above, this interpretation in Haskell would read:
>
> minimum s > minimum q
>
>   which looks quite similar to
>
>>>>>>|the min s > the min q
>
>   , so it might not be that far-fetched.

Sorry, but I think it is far fetched.  The OP used English and a little
maths and I can't see how the English words used can mean what you
suppose.  The word "the" followed the word "find" and that's crucial:

| I want to find:
|  
| 1. the min s > the min q
| 2. the max s < the max q

Your "other" meaning would be "I want to find out if the min s > the min
q" and with this phrasing the two words "the" are not really needed
anymore, though not actually wrong.

(Please stop cutting the only text that matters -- what the OP wrote.)

-- 
Ben.

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Algorithm/code to compare values in an array DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-15 11:16 -0400
  Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-15 16:41 +0100
    Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-15 13:48 -0400
      Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-15 19:47 +0100
        Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 20:17 +0100
          Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-15 20:51 +0100
  Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-06-15 11:43 -0700
    Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-15 19:21 -0400
      Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-06-15 18:49 -0700
  Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Real Troll <Real.Troll@Trolls.com> - 2017-06-15 16:35 -0400
    Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-15 21:34 +0100
      Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-15 23:23 +0100
        Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-16 00:35 +0100
          Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-16 01:04 +0100
          Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-16 01:10 +0100
        Re: Algorithm/code to compare values in an array DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-15 20:45 -0400
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