Finding min and max of an element without using builtin function

UPDATE:

Thank you for your answers, i will share code as soon as possible.

Kindly

Answer 1

[John D'Errico]

You are missing the point here. This is an exercise. The intent is for you to find a solution that does not use max or min.

Does sort serve the purpose? (Yes, quite well.)

Does sort do more work than max or min would perform? (Yes.)

Do you care? (No.)

Your goal was not to find some solution that you think to me optimally elegant, was it? The elegant solution is to use max and min, that is, to use the code provided which is maximally on-target. Suppose instead, you found some tool that took an array and directly returns the min and max of the vector? Almost certainly, that tool will just use min and max internally.

Sort is a good solution, and you are overthinking the problem.

[ahmed yacine LARDJANE]

Thanks for your answer,

what i want to know is how to get the first element of the array and last one and their indexes as well,

so basically i should use sort, the min would be first element and index is 1 and max would be length right?

[Jan]

@ahmed: Correct. Simply try it.

[John D'Errico]

As Jan said, just try it. Make up some data, Then see how sort works. This is how you will learn.

V = rand(1,5)

V = 1×5

0.9795 0.9945 0.6675 0.1575 0.9903

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[sortedV,tags] = sort(V)

sortedV = 1×5

0.1575 0.6675 0.9795 0.9903 0.9945

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tags = 1×5

4 3 1 5 2

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Now, what does sortedV(1) and sortedV(end) give you? Remember, that sort performs a sort in increasing order.

To find the index of those elements, what would tags(1) and tags(end) tell you?

To learn MATLAB, get your hands dirty. Get into the sandbox and play around. You seem reluctant to do that, wanting to know the optimal answer before you try anything. Computing is not that way. An answer is all you ever need, as long as the answer can be obtained as quickly as you need it.

[ahmed yacine LARDJANE]

hello,

this is what i did so far

a=[15;32;5;6];
for i=1:size(a)
    if a(i+1) >= a(i)
        casemin=(i);
     valeurmin= a(i);
     end
   
    if a(i+1) <= a(i)
        
        casemax =(i);
        valeurmax = a(i);
    end
end

where case and valeur means, index and value, the code works i see the value in the workspace, but with a problem " Index exceeds matrix dimensions " in commande window, can someone help me with this? i'm really new to programming and matlab.

thanks for your help and your time

Answer 2

[KSSV]

https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/387435-how-to-find-max-and-min-using-for-loop-and-if-condition-without-using-the-max-and-min-function

[ahmed yacine LARDJANE]

thank you for your help but this one wasn't really what i'm looking for :(

Answer 3

[Kirankumar Bacchewar]

check this posts.

https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/358859-index-for-array-max-or-min-in-simulink-without-variable-size-signal-or-matlab-function-block