Find the maximum value and its location from a matrix using two nested loops
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Hi,
Right now I have this matrix K
K =
-3 -8 6 -3 -8 6 9 24 -18
-5 10 -9 -5 10 -9 15 -30 27
8 4 9 8 4 9 -24 -12 -27
-9 -24 18 12 32 -24 3 8 -6
-15 30 -27 20 -40 36 5 -10 9
24 12 27 -32 -16 -36 -8 -4 -9
9 24 -18 -15 -40 30 0 0 0
15 -30 27 -25 50 -45 0 0 0
-24 -12 -27 40 20 45 0 0 0
I wonder how I can use two nested loops to find the maximum number and its location from this matrix.
It would be great if anyone can help me with this
Thank you very much :)
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sixwwwwww
on 8 Dec 2013
Edited: sixwwwwww
on 8 Dec 2013
you can do it as follow:
MaxValue = -Inf;
row = 0;
column = 0;
for i = 1:size(K, 1)
for j = 1:size(K, 2)
if K(i, j) > MaxValue
MaxValue = K(i, j);
row = i;
column = j;
end
end
end
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Image Analyst
on 8 Dec 2013
But you didn't ask for other ways - you rigidly specified the way. The other, more MATLAB-ish way would be to use the max() function. Look at the two arguments it returns. You might also find ind2sub() helpful,
Alexandra Vaupotic
on 8 Feb 2021
Edited: Alexandra Vaupotic
on 8 Feb 2021
How could you make this a function with an output of the Max value?
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Khalid Mojallid
on 26 Mar 2019
MaxValue = -Inf;
row = 0;
column = 0;
for i = 1:size(K, 1)
for j = 1:size(K, 2)
if K(i, j) > MaxValue
MaxValue = K(i, j);
row = i;
column = j;
end
end
end
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Nathan Blais
on 3 Oct 2019
I'm guessing K would be the vector we are trying to find the max value for?
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