>>There's no other function to search for a value in an array, you're probably going to have to order the array and then compare all the values one by one.
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>>Either ASORT() or adding ORDER BY to your select would give you an ordered array that you can work with for this.
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>If you "compare all the values one by one," there is no benefit from ordering the array. If you do a binary search of the array, the ordering is required and the search will be extremely efficient and will outperform an ascan() after arrays reach about 3000 rows.

I suppose you're right, if you compare all the values. But the idea was to find any value greater or equal to the user-specified criteria, so the ordering of the array is also required on this case.