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<div><h1>maxPosition -- position of largest element</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2>
<ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>maxPosition x</tt></div>
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<li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>x</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Basic__List.html">basic list</a></span></span></li>
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<li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span>the position of the largest element in the list <tt>x</tt></span></li>
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<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div>If the largest element occurs more than once, then the first occurrence is used. If <tt>x</tt> has length 0 an error results.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : maxPosition {1,6,4,2}
o1 = 1</pre>
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Notice that the position of the maximal element is 1, as indexing in Macaulay2 always starts at 0.<p>For elements in a polynomial ring, the order used is the <a href="_monomial_sporderings.html">monomial order</a> associated with the ring.</p>
<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i2 : R = QQ[r,s,x,y,z];</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : z^2 + x*y + s*z
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o3 = x*y + s*z + z
o3 : R</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i4 : maxPosition {z^2, s*z, x*y}
o4 = 2</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i5 : maxPosition(z^2, s*z, x*y)
o5 = 2</pre>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="_min__Position.html" title="position of smallest element">minPosition</a> -- position of smallest element</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_max.html" title="maximum of elements of a list">max</a> -- maximum of elements of a list</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_min.html" title="minimum of elements of a list">min</a> -- minimum of elements of a list</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_sort.html" title="sort a list or columns of a matrix">sort</a> -- sort a list or columns of a matrix</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_position.html" title="find first element of a list satisfying a condition">position</a> -- find first element of a list satisfying a condition</span></li>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>maxPosition</tt> :</h2>
<ul><li>maxPosition(BasicList)</li>
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