"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> In article <39a58c39@news.povray.org>, "Tom Melly"
> <tom### [at] tomandluforce9couk> wrote:
>
> > Assume I'm a complete idiot - what do max and min do in functions,
> > and what is the syntax?
>
> They take two parameters. Min returns the lesser(minimum) of the two,
> and max returns the greater(maximum) of the two. The order of the
> parameters does not matter.

Many thanks - I guessed this after posting but wasn't sure. I was initially
confused by looking up min and max in my dictionary of mathematics which
went on about horizontal tangents to a curve. Ah well.

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