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@@ -18492,20 +18492,23 @@ and functions determine and return the highest or lowest value from among their arguments. -The arguments must be numbers or characters. - If only .meta first-arg is given, that value is returned. +These functions are type generic, since they compare arguments +using the same semantics as the +.code less +function. + If two or more arguments are given, then .code (max a b) is equivalent to -.codn (if (>= a b) a b) , +.codn (if (less a b) b a) , and .code (min a b) is equivalent to -.codn (if (<= a b) a b) . +.codn (if (less a b) a b) . If the operands do not have the same type, then one of them is converted to the type of the other; however, the original unconverted values are returned. For instance |