import math numbers = [] f = open('099.txt', 'r') for line in f: line.rstrip('\n') l = [int(x) for x in line.split(',')] numbers.append(l[1] * math.log(l[0])) # log(x^r) = r*log(x) f.close() maxline = 0 maxn = 0 for n in xrange(0, len(numbers)-1): if numbers[n] > maxn: maxn = numbers[n] maxline = n print maxline+1