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java.lang.Math

THE PACKAGE JAVA.LANG

[This specification for the method

max

 is scheduled for introduction in Java

version 1.1. In previous versions of Java,

max( 0.0f, 0.0f)

returns

 0.0f

,

which is not correct.]

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public static double max(double a, double b)

The result is the larger of the two arguments that is, the one closer to positive

infinity. If the arguments have the same value, the result is that same value.

Special cases:

If one argument is positive zero and the other is negative zero, the result is

positive zero.

If either argument is NaN, the result is NaN.

[This specification for the method

max

 is scheduled for introduction in Java

version 1.1. In previous versions of Java,

max( 0.0d, 0.0d)

returns

 0.0d

,

which is not correct.].

In mathematics he was greater

Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater

For he, by geometric scale,

Could take the size of pots of ale;

Resolve, by sines and tangents straight

Whether bread or butter wanted weight;

And wisely tell what hour o' the day

The clock does strike, by algebra.

 Samuel Butler,

Hudibras

, Part I, canto i

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