Get the indices of the n largest elements in a matrix

Question

Suppose I have the following matrix:

01 02 03 06
03 05 07 02
13 10 11 12
32 01 08 03

And I want the indices of the top 5 elements (in this

Answer 1

In MATLAB ≥ R2017b, you can use maxk for this specific purpose.

[maxvalues, ind] = maxk(A(:), 5);