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Consider an array x such as [1 5 3 4] and a number n, for example 2. Write all length-n sliding subarrays: [1 5], [5 3], [3 4]. Let the minimax of the array be defined as the minimum of the maxima of the sliding blocks. So in this case it would be the minimum of 5, 5, 4, which is 4.

Challenge

Given an array x and a positive integer n, output the minimax as defined above.

The array x will only contain positive integers. n will always be at least 1 and at most the length of x.

Computation may be done by any procedure, not necessarily as defined above.

Code golf, fewest bytes wins.

Test cases

x, n, result

[1 5 3 4], 2                    4
[1 2 3 4 5], 3                  3
[1 1 1 1 5], 4                  1
[5 42 3 23], 3                 42
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Dyalog APL, 4 bytes

⌊/⌈/

This is a monadic function train that expects array and integer as right and left arguments, resp.

Try it with TryAPL.

How it works

A train of two functions is an atop, meaning that the right one is called first (with both arguments), then the left one is called on top of it (with the result as sole argument).

A monadic f/ simply reduces its argument by f. However, if called dyadically, f/ is n-wise reduce, and takes the slice size as its left argument.

⌊/⌈/    Monadic function. Right argument: A (array). Left argument: n (list)

  ⌈/    N-wise reduce A by maximum, using slices of length n.
⌊/      Reduce the maxima by minimum.
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Wait... How do you reduce something that has already been reduced? Isn't it just a singular element? \$\endgroup\$
    – Cyoce
    Feb 15, 2016 at 20:21
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Cyoce The N-wise reduce yields an array of maxima. For example 2 ⌈/ 1 2 3 4 computes the maxima of (1 2) (2 3) (3 4), so it returns 2 3 4. \$\endgroup\$
    – Dennis
    Feb 15, 2016 at 20:23
  • \$\begingroup\$ Ok. I thought it meant that an N-wise reduce took the first N elements and reduce them with the function, e.g a 2-wise reduce is just a normal reduce \$\endgroup\$
    – Cyoce
    Feb 15, 2016 at 20:26
  • \$\begingroup\$ How many bytes should be counted as? 1 or 2? \$\endgroup\$ Feb 16, 2016 at 2:41
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    \$\begingroup\$ @njpipeorgan That depends on the encoding. APL has its own legacy code page (which predates Unicode by several decades), and it encodes and as a single byte each. \$\endgroup\$
    – Dennis
    Feb 16, 2016 at 3:08
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CJam (11 bytes)

{ew::e>:e<}

Online demo

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    \$\begingroup\$ A full program would be q~ew::e>:e<, which is also 11 bytes \$\endgroup\$
    – GamrCorps
    Feb 15, 2016 at 16:18
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Ruby 39 bytes

->(x,n){x.each_slice(n).map(&:max).min}

Where x is the array and n is the number to chunk the array by.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ don't you mean each_cons? \$\endgroup\$ Feb 16, 2016 at 2:05
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Oracle SQL 11.2, 261 bytes

SELECT MIN(m)FROM(SELECT MAX(a)OVER(ORDER BY i ROWS BETWEEN CURRENT ROW AND :2-1 FOLLOWING)m,SUM(1)OVER(ORDER BY i ROWS BETWEEN CURRENT ROW AND:2-1 FOLLOWING)c FROM(SELECT TRIM(COLUMN_VALUE)a,rownum i FROM XMLTABLE(('"'||REPLACE(:1,' ','","')||'"'))))WHERE:2=c;

Un-golfed

SELECT MIN(m)
FROM   (
         SELECT MAX(a)OVER(ORDER BY i ROWS BETWEEN CURRENT ROW AND :2-1 FOLLOWING)m,
                SUM(1)OVER(ORDER BY i ROWS BETWEEN CURRENT ROW AND :2-1 FOLLOWING)c
         FROM   (
                  SELECT TRIM(COLUMN_VALUE)a,rownum i 
                  FROM XMLTABLE(('"'||REPLACE(:1,' ','","')||'"'))
                )
       )
WHERE :2=c;
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Pyth, 10 bytes

hSmeSd.:QE

Explanation:

           - autoassign Q = eval(input())
      .:QE -   sublists(Q, eval(input())) - all sublists of Q of length num
  meSd     -  [sorted(d)[-1] for d in ^]
hS         - sorted(^)[0]

Takes input in the form list newline int

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Or run a Test Suite!

Or also 10 bytes

hSeCSR.:EE

Explanation:

      .:EE -    sublists(Q, eval(input())) - all sublists of Q of length num 
    SR     -   map(sorted, ^)
  eC       -  transpose(^)[-1]
hS         - sorted(^)[0]

Test Suite here

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Jelly, 6 bytes

ṡ»/€«/

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How it works

ṡ»/€«/  Main link. Left input: A (list). Right input: n (integer)

ṡ       Split A into overlapping slices of length n.
 »/€    Reduce each slice by maximum.
    «/  Reduce the maxima by minimum.
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JavaScript (ES6), 84 83 72 bytes

(x,y)=>Math.min(...x.slice(y-1).map((a,i)=>Math.max(...x.slice(i,i+y))))

Thanks to user81655 for helping shave off 11 bytes

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Being all positive: (x,y,M=Math.max)=>-M(...x.slice(y-1).map((a,i)=>-M(...x.slice(i,i+y)))) \$\endgroup\$
    – edc65
    Feb 15, 2016 at 21:50
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Perl 6, 32 bytes

{@^a.rotor($^b=>1-$b)».max.min}

Usage:

my &minimax = {@^a.rotor($^b=>1-$b)».max.min}

say minimax [1,5,3,4], 2;    # 4
say minimax [1,2,3,4,5], 3;  # 3
say minimax [1,1,1,1,5], 4;  # 1
say minimax [5,42,3,23], 3;  # 42
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R, 41 35 bytes

Requires zoo to be installed.

function(x,n)min(zoo::rollmax(x,n))

edit - 6 bytes by realizing zoo::rollmax exists!

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Vyxal, 4 bytes

lvGg

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Why reduce by things when you can just vectorise.

Explained

lvGg
l    # overlaps of input list of size input integer. 
 vG  # maximum of each window
   g # minimum of that
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Husk, 4 bytes

▼m▲X

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Explanation

▼m▲X
   X  each consecutive slice of length
 m▲   maximum of each
▼     minimum
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Jelly, 4 bytes

ṡṀ€Ṃ

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Since Dennis' answer, the aximum and inimum monadic atoms have been added

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Julia 0.6, 51 bytes

f(x,n)=min([max(x[i-n+1:i]...)for i=n:endof(x)]...)

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Nothing too groundbreaking. This is a function that accepts an array and an integer and returns an integer. It just uses the basic algorithm. It would be a whole lot shorter if min and max didn't require splatting arrays into arguments.

We get each overlapping subarray, take the max, and take the min of the result.

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MATL, 6 bytes

YCX>X<

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YC    % Implicitly input array and number. Build a matrix with columns formed
      % by sliding blocks of the array with size given by the number
X>    % Maximum of each column
X<    % Minimum of all maxima. Implicitly display
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Python 3, 55 bytes.

lambda x,n:min(max(x[b:b+n])for b in range(len(x)-n+1))

Test cases:

assert f([1, 5, 3, 4], 2) == 4
assert f([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 3) == 3
assert f([1, 1, 1, 1, 5], 4) == 1
assert f([5, 42, 3, 23], 3 ) == 42
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Python 2, 50 bytes

f=lambda l,n:l[n-1:]and min(max(l[:n]),f(l[1:],n))

Recursively computes the minimum of two things: the max of the first n entries, and the recursive function on the list with first element removed. For a base case of the list having fewer than n elements, gives the empty list, which serves as infinity because Python 2 puts lists as greater than numbers.

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Mathematica, 23 bytes

Min@BlockMap[Max,##,1]&

Test case

%[{1,2,3,4,5},3]
(* 3 *)
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J, 9 bytes

[:<./>./\

Similar to the APL answer. >./\ applies >./ (maximum) to the (left arg)-subsets of the right arg. Then, <./ finds the minimum of that, since it's capped with [:.

Test cases

   f =: [:<./>./\
   2 f 1 5 3 4
4
   3 f 1 2 3 4 5
3
   3 f 1 1 1 1 5
1
   3 f 5 42 3 23
42
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Factor, 34 bytes

[ clump [ supremum ] map infimum ]

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Explanation

                  ! { 1 5 3 4 } 2
clump             ! { { 1 5 } { 5 3 } { 3 4 } }
[ supremum ] map  ! { 5 5 4 }
infimum           ! 4
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05AB1E, 6 bytes

ŒIù€àß

Try it online or verify all test cases.

Explanation:

Œ       # Get all sublists of the (implicit) input-list
 Iù     # Only keep those of a size equal to the second input
   ۈ   # Get the maximum of each inner list
     ß  # Pop and push the minimum of that
        # (after which the result is output implicitly)
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Java 8, 128 126 124 105 bytes

a->n->{int r=0,m,j,t,i=-1;for(;i++<a.length-n;r=r<1|m<r?m:r)for(m=j=0;j<n;m=t>m?t:m)t=a[i+j++];return r;}

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Explanation:

a->n->{                    // Method with Integer-array & Integer as parameters
                           // and Integer return-type
  int r=0,                 //  Result-integer, starting at 0
      m,                   //  Max-integer, uninitialized
      j,t,                 //  Temp integers
  i=-1;for(;i++<a.length-n //  Loop `i` in the range (-1,length-n]:
           ;               //    After every iteration:
            r=             //     Change the result to:
              r<1          //      If the result is 0 (first iteration),
              |m<r?        //      or the max is smaller than the result:
                m          //       Change the result to this max
              :            //      Else:
               r)          //       Keep it unchanged
    for(m=                 //   Reset the max to 0
        j=0;j<n            //   Inner loop `j` in the range [0,n):
        ;                  //     After every iteration:
         m=t>m?t:m)        //      Set `m` to the max of `m` and `t`
      t=a[i+j++];          //    Set `t` to the `i+j`'th item of the array
  return r;}               //  After the nested loops, return the result
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Rust, 46 bytes

|s,n|s.windows(n).map(|a|a.iter().max()).min()

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Takes in a &[u32] and returns an Option<Option<&u32>>. The result will be Some(Some(&minimax)) so long as valid input is supplied.

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Burlesque, 7 bytes

CO)>]<]

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CO  # Sliding window length N
)>] # Map max of block
<]  # Min of result
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Julia 1.0, 48 bytes

x\n=minimum(n:length(x).|>i->max(x[i-n+1:i]...))

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based on Alex A.'s answer

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JavaScript (ES6), 70 bytes

x=>n=>-M(...x.slice(n-1).map((_,i)=>-M(...x.slice(i,i+n)))),M=Math.max

Using currying, this function saves 2 bytes from the previous answer.

Demo

f=x=>n=>-M(...x.slice(n-1).map((_,i)=>-M(...x.slice(i,i+n)))),M=Math.max
a=[[[1,5,3,4],2,4],[[1,2,3,4,5],3,3],[[1,1,1,1,5],4,1],[[5,42,3,23],3,42]]
document.write(`<pre>${a.map(r=>`${f(r[0])(r[1])==r[2]?'PASS':'FAIL'} ${r[1]}=>${r[2]}`).join`\n`}`)

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Racket 84 bytes

(λ(l i)(apply min(for/list((j(-(length l)(- i 1))))(apply max(take(drop l j) i)))))

Ungolfed:

(define f
  (λ (l i)
    (apply min (for/list ((j (- (length l)
                                (- i 1))))
                 (apply max (take (drop l j) i))
                 ))))

Testing:

(f '[1 5 3 4]  2)
(f '[1 2 3 4 5] 3)
(f '[5 42 3 23] 3)

Output:

4
3
42
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Clojure, 51 bytes

#(apply min(for[p(partition %2 1 %)](apply max p)))
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SmileBASIC, 68 bytes

M=MAX(X)DIM T[N]FOR I=.TO LEN(X)-N-1COPY T,X,I,N
M=MIN(M,MAX(T))NEXT

Nothing special here. Inputs are X[] and N

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T-SQL, 131 bytes

SELECT top 1max(iif(a<c,c,a))FROM x y
CROSS APPLY(SELECT a c FROM x WHERE y.b<b and b<y.b+@)z
GROUP BY b
HAVING-@=~sum(1)ORDER BY 1

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R, 64 bytes

function(x,n)min(apply(matrix(x,l<-sum(x|1)+1,n)[n:l-n,],1,max))

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Answer without using zoo.

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