clojure.core/max

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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 3 Runnable: 3

([x] [x y] [x y & more])

Returns the greatest of the nums.

Examples

by MrHus on 2010-07-18 ▶

;; `max` returns the largest of its arguments (max 1 2 3 4 5) 5 ;; regardless of order of those arguments (max 5 4 3 2 1) 5 (max 100) 100

by mydoghasworms on 2013-04-29 ▶

;; If elements are already in a sequence, use apply (apply max [1 2 3 4 3]) 4 (apply max '(4 3 5 6 2)) 6

by zjliu1984 on 2016-12-22 ▶

(reduce max [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 3]) 7

Note by zk

As of 1.6, max's behavior differs when it's passed single / multiple non-numeric arguments:

(max "foo") ;;=> "foo"

(max "foo" "bar") ;;=> ClassCastException thrown

Note by burbma

;; Be warned
user=> (max 1 nil)
java.lang.NullPointerException

See also

• clojure.core/max-key (5)
• clojure.core/min (2)

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