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Math.min() 437

Math.min()

Availability

Flash Player 5. In Flash Player 4, the methods and properties of the Math class are emulated using

approximations and might not be as accurate as the non-emulated math functions that Flash

Player 5 supports.

Usage

Math.min(x:Number , y:Number) : Number

Parameters

A number or expression.

y A number or expression.

Returns

A number.

Description

Method; evaluates x and y and returns the smaller value.

Example

The following example displays Sat Dec 25 00:00:00 GMT-0700 2004, which is the smaller of

the evaluated expressions.

var date1:Date = new Date(2004, 11, 25);

var date2:Date = new Date(2004, 11, 30);

var minDate:Number = Math.min(date1.getTime(), date2.getTime());

trace(new Date(minDate).toString());