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Exercise: Determine Maximum of Two Numbers
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Write a program that

* Takes two numbers from the :doc:`commandline
  </trainings/material/soup/python/basics/python_0139_commandline_argv/topic>`. *Remember*:
  commandline arguments can only be strings, so those have to be
  :ref:`converted to numbers <python-datatype-conversions>`.
* Determines the maximum of the numbers.
* Outputs the maximum.

.. code-block::

   $ python maximum.py 42 123
   123