relationalai.std.minimum()

minimum(arg1: Any, arg2: Any, *args: Any) -> Expression

Returns the minimum of the arguments. Must be used in a rule or query context.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
arg1	Any	The first argument.
arg2	Any	The second argument.
*args	Any	Additional arguments.

Returns

An Expression object.

Example

Use minimum() to return the minimum of two or more arguments:

import relationalai as rai
from relationalai.std import alias, minimum

model = rai.Model("MyModel")
Point = model.Type("Point")

with model.rule():
    Point.add(x=1, y=2)
    Point.add(x=4, y=3)

with model.query() as select:
    point = Point()
    min_coord = minimum(point.x, point.y)
    response = select(point.x, point.y, alias(min_coord, "min"))

print(response.results)
#    x  y  min
# 0  1  2    1
# 1  4  3    3

See Also

• maximum()
• min()
• max()