#14440: bug in max?
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Reporter: zimmerma | Owner: burcin
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix
Component: calculus | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: Karl-Dieter Crisman
Authors: | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Changes (by kcrisman):
* status: new => needs_review
* reviewer: => Karl-Dieter Crisman
* milestone: sage-5.10 => sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix
Comment:
Feature.
{{{
sage: max(x,x^2)
x
sage: max(x^2,x)
x^2
sage: max_symbolic(x,x^2)
max(x, x^2)
sage: max_symbolic(x^2,x)
max(x^2, x)
sage: max_symbolic(x^2,x).subs(x=.5)
0.500000000000000
sage: max_symbolic(x,x^2).subs(x=.5)
0.500000000000000
sage: max_symbolic(x^2,x).subs(x=2)
4
sage: max_symbolic(x,x^2).subs(x=2)
4
}}}
This comes up pretty frequently, but since `max` is a Python built-in, we
can't really override it easily in the "right" way for this to work
differently, and it would probably be bad to add a little message about
"if you really want..." since often max is just the right thing.
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