Problem 1920. Find the position of first minimum value in an integer array with numbers

Created by Awadhesh Srivastava

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Awadhesh Srivastava on 9 Oct 2013

please explain the solution.

James on 9 Oct 2013

The ~ is a dummy variable, and isn't needed for the calculation. Some earlier versions of MATLAB don't have that option, and will give you an error with that statement. If you have that happen, you can use dummy or junk as the variable name in place of the ~.

Awadhesh Srivastava on 10 Oct 2013

thanks James

J.R.! Menzinger on 10 Oct 2013

I'm late, but James answer ist perfect! ;-)

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