Create min.py

Find min or smallest number in data

Author: Kalpak Take

algorithms/analysis/min.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+
+# Finds the minium number
+# in un-sorted data
+
+# Sudo Algo:
+# Iterate through data
+# each time a number(say k) is less than previous 
+# consideration(say p), replace previous 
+# consideration(p) with that smaller number(k)
+# By this way, 
+# 	At last we get the smallest(minium) number from data
+
+def min_(seq):
+	min_n = seq[0]
+	for item in seq[1:]:
+		if item < min_n:
+			min_n = item 
+	return min_n
+
+
+# Test
+# Add your tests too!
+tests = [[9017289, 782367, 736812903, 9367821, 71256716278, 676215, 2398, 0, 1], 
+		 [19208, 9239, 4376, 738, 78, 51, 5, 6, 12, 78, 123, 65765, 1999999999],
+		 [1, 2, 4, 7, 9]]
+
+# checking our functions results
+# with python's built-in min() function
+for test_i in range(len(tests)):
+	m = min_(tests[test_i])
+	if m == min(tests[test_i]):
+		print("Min number in array({}) -> ".format(test_i + 1) + str(m))
+	else:
+		print("Oops! Someting went wrong!")