.. highlightlang:: us

.. _min:

min
===

.. index:: min

.. us.tag  min ENGLISH

:ref:`min` finds the smallest element of a
vector or the smallest element of each matrix column.

.. function::  r = min(m)

.. us.return

**Return Value**

*r* is a scalar, if *m* is a vector. *r* is a row vector, if
*m* is a matrix. The column vector contains the smallest elements of
each matrix column.

.. us.params

**Parameters**

.. uparam:: m

   *m* is a real, complex or string matrix.

.. us.comment

**Comment**

For complex matrices *m*, the function compares the
absolute values.

.. seealso::
   :ref:`overview-mathematic`,
   :ref:`mini`,
   :ref:`max`

:sub:`id-1622846`