**CIGAL Reference Manual, Chapter 3 (Functions): MIN**
===== MIN -- Find the minimum value in a variable, or between 2 variables =====
**        usage:  result = min(varb)**\\
**    or   result = min(varb1,varb2)**\\
**    or   result = min(varb,0)**

The function MIN returns the smallest value of its arguments. The function
can take 3 forms as indicated above:
    1) If there is only 1 argument, then MIN returns the smallest value in that
       argument.
  
    2) If there are 2 arguments each having N elements (e.g., 2 arrays) then
       the result will also contain N elements; the value of each element is
       the minimum value of the 2 input elements in the corresponding position.
    
    3) If there are 2 arguments and the first has more than 1 element but the
       second has only 1 element (e.g., 0 -- a constant), then MIN finds the
       smallest value in the first argument, but the returned value is the
       POSITION of the minimum value (remembering that CIGAL considers the first
       element to be in position 0).  If there is more than 1 element with the
       minimum value, the position of the first is returned.

Examples:
      Assuming you have 2 arrays with values:
           A1:  {  40  20  30  20  10  55  10 }
           A2:  {  20  22  24  26  28  30  32 }
      Then:
             min(100,200)     -->         100
             min(a1)          -->         10
             min(a1,a2)       -->         { 20 20 24 20 10 30 10 }
             min(a1,0)        -->         4         (addresses start at 0)

**See Also:**\\
[[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter3:max|MAX(3)]], 
[[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter3:stats|STATS(3)]]

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