Min() is a math library function available in many programming environments which returns the entity of smallest value from two or more candidate values.

Do not use min for:

• Question about minimal value of type (Long.MIN_VALUE, Integer.MIN_VALUE etc.)

Examples:

SQL

SQL MIN() function is one of aggregate functions. It returns the smallest value of column.
Example:

SELECT MIN(column_name) FROM table_name;

Python

In Python, the native min function identifies the smallest element of a set (e.g., a list):

>> min([1, 2, 3])
1

Java

In Java we can use java.lang.Math class to compute minimum value of two arguments. Example:

int minElement = Math.min(x, y);

To compute minimum element in collection we can use ,min() method from java.util.Collections class:

int minElement = Collections.min(list);

Ruby

In Ruby to compute minimum element of collection we simply use min function:

[4,7].min

Clojure

In Clojure we use min function in following way:

(min 1 2 3 4)

In above code `min' is function name and numbers 1..4 are arguments passed to it.
Or if we have list defined:

def myList [1 2 3 4]

then we can compute min this way:

(apply min myList)

R

In R we have function min.

x <- c(1, 2, 3)
y <- c(4, 5)
z <- c(0, NA)
min(x)
min(y)
min(z)
min(z, na.rm = TRUE)
min(x, y, z, na.rm = TRUE)  ## as same as min(c(x, y, z), na.rm = TRUE)