Maximum

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This page is about the primitive function. For system limits, see LIMIT ERROR and Maximum rank.
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Maximum (⌈), Max, Greater of, or Larger of is a dyadic scalar function which returns the larger of its two arguments. The name "Maximum" is sometimes also used for the Maximum Reduce <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>⌈/</source>, which returns the largest element of a vector (this usage is related to the maximum of a function). Maximum is paired with Minimum, and shares the glyph <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>⌈</source> with the Ceiling function. It is not subject to comparison tolerance, since the result will be exactly equal to one argument, and there is no reason to choose a smaller argument even if the two arguments are tolerantly equal. As a Boolean function, Maximum is identical to Or.

Examples

See also Minimum#examples.

Maximum finds the larger of two numbers: <syntaxhighlight lang=apl> 

     2.4 ⌈ 1.9

2.4 </source> Maximum Reduce finds the largest element in a vector: <syntaxhighlight lang=apl> 

     ⌈/ 4 3 2 7 5 1 3

7 </source> The index of this element can be found with Index Of, but is also the First element of the Grade Down of the vector. <syntaxhighlight lang=apl> 

     {⍵⍳⌈/⍵} 4 3 2 7 5 1 3

4 

     ⊃⍒ 4 3 2 7 5 1 3

4 </source>

Reducing over an empty axis yields the smallest representable number, as that is the identity element for Maximum. This value is usually <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>¯∞</source> (for dialects that support infinities) or <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>¯1.797693135E308</source> (with 64-bit floats) or <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>¯1E6145</source> (with 128-bit decimal floats).

External links

Documentation


APL built-ins [edit]
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Scalar
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Dyadic Add ∙ Subtract ∙ Times ∙ Divide ∙ Residue ∙ Power ∙ Logarithm ∙ Minimum ∙ Maximum ∙ Binomial ∙ Comparison functions ∙ Boolean functions (And, Or, Nand, Nor) ∙ GCD ∙ LCM ∙ Circular ∙ Complex ∙ Root
Non-Scalar
Structural Shape ∙ Reshape ∙ Tally ∙ Depth ∙ Ravel ∙ Enlist ∙ Table ∙ Catenate ∙ Reverse ∙ Rotate ∙ Transpose ∙ Raze ∙ Mix ∙ Split ∙ Enclose ∙ Nest ∙ Cut (K) ∙ Pair ∙ Link ∙ Partitioned Enclose ∙ Partition
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Selector Index generator ∙ Grade ∙ Index Of ∙ Interval Index ∙ Indices ∙ Deal ∙ Prefix and suffix vectors
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Operators Monadic Each ∙ Commute ∙ Constant ∙ Replicate ∙ Expand ∙ Reduce ∙ Windowed Reduce ∙ Scan ∙ Outer Product ∙ Key ∙ I-Beam ∙ Spawn ∙ Function axis ∙ Identity (Null, Ident)
Dyadic Bind ∙ Compositions (Compose, Reverse Compose, Beside, Withe, Atop, Over) ∙ Inner Product ∙ Determinant ∙ Power ∙ At ∙ Under ∙ Rank ∙ Depth ∙ Variant ∙ Stencil ∙ Cut ∙ Direct definition (operator) ∙ Identity (Lev, Dex)
Quad names Index origin ∙ Comparison tolerance ∙ Migration level ∙ Atomic vector
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