Tim Peters wrote: > > [Moshe] > > The mathematical definition for max() I learned in Calculus 101 was > > "the smallest element which is > then all arguments" > > Then I guess American and Dutch calculus are different. Assuming you meant > to type >=, that's the definition of what we called the "least upper bound" > (or "lub") or "supremum" (or "sup"); and what I suppose you call "min" we > called "greatest lower bound" (or "glb") or "infimum". As long as we're shooting the shit on a Friday afternoon... http://www.emba.uvm.edu/~read/TI86/maxmin.html http://www.math.com/tables/derivatives/extrema.htm Look at that domain name. Are you going to argue with that??? A corporation dedicated to mathematics? -- Take a recipe. Leave a recipe. Python Cookbook! http://www.activestate.com/pythoncookbook
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