Add PositionMaximum and PositionMinimum #956
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This adds the new methods
PositionMaximum
andPositionMinimum
, which returns the index of the largest element of a list. It also can be used to find the largest element under some function.I have had this function privately for some time, and often use it myself. For example, finding the largest element of a list
l
of groups can be done byl[PositionMaximum(l, Size)]
, whereas I don't know of any other short way of doing this in GAP (if I've missed a method somewhere, please tell me).