`Nearest`¶

Find the nearest elements in a list to a given value.

$ wo 'Nearest[{1, 5, 10, 12}, 11]'
{10, 12}

A count limits how many of the closest elements are returned.

$ wo 'Nearest[{1, 2, 3, 10}, 4, 2]'
{3, 2}

Strings are compared by edit distance.

$ wo 'Nearest[{"cat", "car", "dog"}, "cot"]'
{cat}

Nearest¶