Bizarre max {} notation My professor gave us the following problem, but it uses a notation/syntax I haven't seen before $(q_{luke} = max \{ \dots \})$. She hasn't explained it or introduced it to us prior to this.



What does this mean? I assume it must be somehow translatable into $y=mx+b$ form given the context of the problem, but I'm not sure how. Thanks!
max {a, b, c} means the highest of these elements. 

For example, if "b" is higher than a and c, then max {a, b, c} = b