math

Returns the maximum of a list of values, or of columns in a table.

Signature

> math max {flags}

Input/output types:

input	output
list<any>	any
list<duration>	duration
list<filesize>	filesize
list<number>	number
range	number
record	record
table	record

Examples

Find the maximum of a list of numbers

> [-50 100 25] | math max
100

Find the maxima of the columns of a table

> [{a: 1 b: 3} {a: 2 b: -1}] | math max
╭───┬───╮
│ a │ 2 │
│ b │ 3 │
╰───┴───╯

Find the maximum of a list of dates

> [2022-02-02 2022-12-30 2012-12-12] | math max
Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 (2 years ago)