.. highlightlang:: us

.. _mini:

mini
====

.. index:: mini

.. us.tag  mini ENGLISH

The :ref:`mini` function finds the index of the smallest
element of a vector, or returns an index vector with indices of the
smallest element of each matrix column.

.. function::  r = mini(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 indices of 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:`maxi`,
   :ref:`min`

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