cam90601

Hello, I am new to max and I am using the program to make a sonification out a large data set, the only problem is the data set is to large for me to manually find out the minimum and maximum numbers in each column. I have tried using the [zl] object to help me find the numbers but there doesn't seem to be any output displaying the numbers. I have attached a patch and the data sets to demonstrate what I am trying to do. I would appreciate if anybody could help me! Thank you! (Also I am very new to max it would help me loads if you could be as descriptive as you can in your reply).

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How do I Find the minimum and maximum numbers in a large data set.