precision without overflow. Rounding uses IEEE 754 round-to-even rules but with an IEEE
negative zero further simplified to an unsigned zero. Note that constant values never result
in an IEEE negative zero, NaN, or infinity.
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<li>
<code>T</code> is a complex type, and <code>x</code>'s
<a href="#Complex_numbers">components</a> <code>real(x)</code> and <code>imag(x)</code>

  +Inf      y            y         +Inf    // positive infinity is larger than any other number
   NaN      y          NaN          NaN    // if any argument is a NaN, the result is a NaN
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<p>
For string arguments the result for <code>min</code> is the first argument
with the smallest (or for <code>max</code>, largest) value,
compared lexically byte-wise: