On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca>
[max] does output the greater of two numbers.
Ha! Then my _misunderstanding_ is that [max 5] = "make 5 the maximum value that can
come out of the outlet". I have to open the help file every time I use [min] [max] to see
which is the real behavior, and which the figment of my imagination.
It's the same max and min as in math textbooks and as in a bunch of
programming languages and libraries.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/max/
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Max.html
http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.29/glib-Standard-Macros.html#MAX:CAPS
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/number_min.htm
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Enumerable.html#M001504
http://php.net/manual/en/function.max.php
etc
I don't recall ever seeing any language or library swap the meaning of min
and max. It seems to be very standard.
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