Locating the Smallest Entry in an Array
Understand how to find the smallest entry in an array by comparing elements and tracking the minimum value or its index. Learn to implement this in Java using loops to traverse the array, making you proficient in array manipulation and data retrieval.
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When the entries in an array can be compared with each other, we can find the smallest (or largest) among them. We either can report the value of that entry or give only its location in the array, that is, its index.
Finding the smallest entry in an array
For example, let’s consider an array data of numberCount positive integers. We know that we can compare one integer with another one. Let’s assume that numberCount does not exceed data.length, the capacity of the array. Let’s make the additional assumption that ...