An Interesting Question Arises When We Consider What Would Happen

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Essay

An interesting question arises when we consider what would happen if we did not have a built-in function to return the maximum value in the list. We could conceivably construct our own getMax function by iterating through the items in the list and keeping track of the largest value that we encounter. Provide an implementation of such a function.

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Definitions:

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