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A recursion version of the built-in min function in Python.
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| def MIN(X): | |
| "returns the minimum value in a list of numbers" | |
| if len(X)>2: | |
| x = X[0] | |
| y = MIN(X[1:]) | |
| else: | |
| x,y = X | |
| sn = (x-y)/(2*abs(x-y)) | |
| b = (x*(0.5-sn)+y*(sn+0.5)) | |
| return b | |
| MIN([2,3,1,-7]) |
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