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17.5  Here's a procedure that takes two numbers as arguments and returns whichever number is larger:

Use max2 to implement max, a procedure that takes one or more numeric arguments and returns the largest of them.

; Here's a procedure that takes two numbers as arguments and returns whichever
; number is larger:
;
; (define (max2 a b)
; (if (> b a) b a))
;
; Use max2 to implement max, a procedure that takes one or more numeric arguments
; and returns the largest of them.

(define (max2 a b)
(if (> b a) b a))

(define (maxxx n . the-rest)
(if (null? the-rest)
n
(apply maxxx
(cons (max2 n (car the-rest))
(cdr the-rest)))))

Explanation / Answer

the problem is with the parenthesis kindly make the following changes and execute it:

(define (max2 a b)
(if ((> b a)) b a))

(define (maxxx n . the-rest)
(if (null? the-rest))
n
(apply maxxx
(cons (max2 n (car the-rest))
(cdr the-rest)))

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