HP MLIB User's Guide Vol. 1 7th Ed.

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SMIN/DMIN/IMIN Minimum of vector
Indexing Conventions” in the introduction to this
chapter.
Output s If n ≤ 0, then s = ∞, the largest representable machine
number. Otherwise, s is the minimum of the elements
of x.
Fortran
Equivalent
REAL*4 FUNCTION SMIN (N,X,INCX)
REAL*4 X(*)
SMIN = ∞
INCXA = ABS ( INCX )
IX = 1
DO 10 I = 1, N
SMIN = MIN ( SMIN , X(IX) )
IX = IX + INCXA
10 CONTINUE
RETURN
END
Example Compute the minimum of the elements of REAL*8 vector x, where x is a vector
10 elements long stored in a one-dimensional array X of dimension 20.
INTEGER*4 N,INCX
REAL*8 S,DMIN,X(20)
N = 10
INCX = 1
S = DMIN (N,X,INCX)