So the best thing to do is to read all of the docs. On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Jordan Johnson <j...@fellowhuman.com> wrote: > Argmin is a standard math term, but if it's one you haven't encountered, I'm > not sure how easily you could turn it up in the Racket docs. This is a > problem I've thought it might be nice to find somebody in a library program > to work on; they study indexing in depth, and choosing terms to index is a > very different specialty than programming and language design. (This is to > say, I've encountered the same difficulties at times, but it's a problem that > I think Racket shares with most other languages...because the audience for > the docs contains both subject matter experts who know the terms for what > they're looking for, and folks who have an idea of what they want to do but > don't know the (perhaps language-specific) name for it. But then, this is a > problem that apprentices in all kinds of trades have faced for centuries...) > > Best, > Jordan > > On Nov 21, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Grant Rettke <gret...@acm.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Today I saw someone use the 'argmin' function. >> >> I wondered how I might learn about it from search results. For example >> you know you want the minimum, and you might broadly get back a result >> for example if there was a page on "functions that give you minimums >> generally". >> >> I tried 'min' and combinations with asterisks before and after and >> never got argmin as a result. >> >> What might I do to achieve something like this? >> >> For example, I used AgentRansack and searched the html for 'minimize' >> and that was one way to do it after digging around. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> -- >> Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE >> gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ >> Wisdom begins in wonder. >> ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) >> >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
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