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Computing The Maximum Element From Multiple Matrices

Syntax	maxs(A1, A2, . . . , An)
See Also	max , mins

Description
Returns the largest element out of all of the matrices listed as parameters. For each i, Ai is a character, integer, real, or double-precision matrix. If one of the Ai is a character matrix, all of the Ai must be character matrices.

The return value is a scalar with the same type as the matrix containing the largest element.

Example
     maxs([1, 2], 3, -5.12)
returns
     3