How to find the max/min of a nested array in javascript?

Question

I want to find the maximum of a nested array, something like this:

a = [[1,2],[20,3]]
d3.max(d3.max(a)) // 20

but my array contains a text

Answer 1

You can flatten an array and apply a function to each member

Array.prototype.flatten= function(fun){
    if(typeof fun!= 'function') fun= '';
    var A= [], L= this.length, itm;
    for(var i= 0; i