**CIGAL Reference Manual, Chapter 3 (Functions): MAX**
===== MAX -- Find the maximum value in a variable, or between 2 variables =====
**        usage:  result = max(varb)**\\
**    or   result = max(varb1,varb2)**\\
**    or   result = max(varb,0)**

The function MAX returns the largest value of its arguments. The
function can take 3 forms as indicated above:
    1) If there is only 1 argument, then MAX returns the largest value in that
       argument.
    2) If there are 2 arguments each having N elements (e.g., 2 arrays) then the
       result will also contain N elements. Each element's value is the maximum
       value of the 2 input elements in the corresponding position.
    3) If there are 2 arguments and the first has more than 1 element but the
       second has only 1 element (e.g., 0 -- a constant), then MAX finds the
       largest value in the first argument, but the returned value is the
       position of the maximum value (remembering that CIGAL considers the first
       element to be in position 0).  If there is more than 1 element with the
       maximum value, the position of the first is returned.

Examples:
      Assuming you have 2 arrays with values:
           A1:  {  40  20  30  20  10  55  10 }
           A2:  {  20  22  24  26  28  30  32 }
      Then:
             max(100,200)     -->         200
             max(a1)          -->         55
             max(a1,a2)       -->         { 40 22 30 26 28 55 32 }
             max(a1,0)        -->         5         (addresses start at 0)

**See Also:**\\
[[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter3:min|MIN(3)]], 
[[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter3:stats|STATS(3)]]

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