Maximum and Minimum Values in a Matrix
The max() and min() functions find the maximum and minimum values respectively in an array, along a given dimension. The output of these commands will be a row vector(default) which will have max/min values of each column in that array/matrix. Then we can apply the max()/min() function again to find the max/min values from that 1D vector.
Syntax:
To get row vectors with extreme values
max-row = max(matrix)
min-row = min(matrix)
To get extreme value from a given row vector of extreme values
max(max-row)
min(min-row)
Now let us see the same in action.
Maximum Value:
We will create a 5×5 magic square and find its maximum value, which should be 25.
Example 1:
Matlab
% MATLAB code matrix = magic(5)% Nesting the max command % for finding maximum valuemax_val = max(max(matrix)) |
Output:
Minimum Value:
Similarly, we will now find the minimum value of the same magic square, which should be 1.
Example 2:
Matlab
% MATLAB code for find min_valmatrix = magic(5)min_val = min(min(matrix)) |
Output:
Find Indices of Maximum and Minimum Value of Matrix in MATLAB
Matrices in MATLAB are 2-dimensional arrays that store mostly numeric data at different indices. Now, to find the indices of maximum and minimum values of a given matrix, MATLAB does not provide any direct functionality however, we can do the same by using two other functionalities. Firstly, we will find the maximum or minimum value of a given matrix and then, we will find the indices of those two values. In this scenario, MATLAB does offer simple functions to perform the former tasks. In this article, we shall see how to do the same for a magic square.