mini / maxi functions



Stavros Macrakis escribi?:
> I disagree that lmax should perform column-wise max.  I certainly 
> understand that this is a useful and important operation, but I don't 
> think it should be the meaning of lmax, especially since Maxima 
> doesn't allow 'max' on lists (a.k.a. vectors).

Then, let's rewrite the functions in descriptive. But I don't like 
col_min, as you proposed in a previous post, since other functions 
(mean, std, etc.) also operate in column wise form without prefix col_ 
in their names.

I prefere smin and smax for the sample min and max. These names also 
follow the name convention of lmin and lmax.


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Mario