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### 7.8 Functions

Many functions are available for use within your expressions, covering standard mathematical and trigonometric functions, arithmetic utility functions, type conversions, and some more specialised astronomical ones. You can use them in just the way you'd expect, by using the function name (unlike column names, this is case-sensitive) followed by comma-separated arguments in brackets, so

        max(IMAG,JMAG)

will give you the larger of the values in the columns IMAG and JMAG, and so on.

The functions are grouped into the following classes:

Full documentation of the functions in these classes is given in Appendix B.1, and is also available within TOPCAT from the Available Functions Window.

- 7.8.1 Technical Note

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