Where is the second value coming from in this line of code?

Im trying to understand where the "y" is coming from in this line of code.

[x,y]=max(numPlot);

numPlot is an array with 25 numbers. So x is storing the max value from that array but i don't understand what y is storing. Here is an example of numPlot output and what x,y is storing.

numPlot: 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 7 9 6 10 1 10 11 8 9 9 2 5 7 2 2 1 2 1
[x,y]: 11    14

Where did the 14 come from?

[Ced]

Matlab help: max function

Answer 1

[John D'Errico]

Did you read the help for max? Why not? Surely that should be the very first thing you do when there is a question.

help max
doc max

I imagine there are times when one might wish to know not only what the maximum value was, but where it was located?

[Recap]

Thanks that's exactly what I needed. I'm new to Matlab and didn't know about "help" function.

[Image Analyst]

In the editor window, you can also put the cursor in the function, or double-click to highlight the function, and hit the F1 key to bring up the documentation on that work.

The 14 means that the max, 11, occurs at element #14.

[Stephen23]

@Recap: the MATLAB help is very readable, and you can search it using your favorite internet search engine. Learning to read the MATLAB documentation will be the biggest help you can give yourself when using MATLAB