.. highlightlang:: us

.. _max:

max
===

.. index:: max

.. us.tag  max ENGLISH

:ref:`max` finds the largest element of
a vector or the largest element of each column of a matrix.

.. function::  r = max(m)

.. us.return

**Return Value**

*r* is a scalar, if *m* is a vector. *r* is a row vector
if *m* is a matrix. The column vector contains the largest elements
of each matrix column.

.. us.params

**Parameters**

.. uparam:: m

   *m* is a real, complex or string matrix.

.. us.comment

**Comment**

For complex matrices *m*, the function compares the
absolute values.

.. seealso::
   :ref:`overview-mathematic`,
   :ref:`maxi`,
   :ref:`min`

:sub:`id-1257157`