f(max/2)

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- Packages

Availability:Arithmetic function (see is/2)

[ISO]max(+Expr1, +Expr2)

Evaluate to the larger of Expr1 and Expr2. Both arguments are compared after converting to the same type, but the return value is in the original type. For example, max(2.5, 3) compares the two values after converting to float, but returns the integer 3. If both values are numerical equal the returned max is of the type used for the comparison. For example, the max of 1 and 1.0 is 1.0 because both numbers are converted to float for the comparison. However, the special float -0.0 is smaller than 0.0 as well as the integer 0. If the Prolog flag float_undefined is set to nan and one of the arguments evaluates to NaN, the result is NaN.

The function maxr/2 is similar, but uses exact (rational) comparison if Expr1 and Expr2 have a different type, propagate the rational (integer) rather and the float if the two compare equal and propagate the non-NaN value in case one is NaN.