How do I find the least of a group of numbers?
Call the min procedure, giving it all of the numbers as
operands:
Do the operands have to be integers?> (min 37 41) 37 > (min -83 -17 -218 -62 -718) -718 > (min 12) 12 > (min -14 -14 -14 3 -14 -12 -14 -5 -14) -14
No, any or all of them can be rationals or reals, if the implementation
supports such numbers. The min procedure cannot accept
complex numbers as operands, however, since they are not uniquely ordered
as ``less'' and ``greater.''
Can the min procedure receive any number of operands?
Any number except zero. It makes no sense to try to find the least of an empty collection of numbers.
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