max doesn't return max?

[Dennis Haupt]

maybe i am blind, but why does max return the complete lazy seq here
instead of the maximum number? if i just print as-products, i get a list
of numbers. (count solution) tells me there are 1000+
and yet max gives me the complete list?

(ns euler.Problem8)

(def digits
"73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934
96983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843
85861560789112949495459501737958331952853208805511
12540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557
66896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113
62229893423380308135336276614282806444486645238749
30358907296290491560440772390713810515859307960866
70172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776
65727333001053367881220235421809751254540594752243
52584907711670556013604839586446706324415722155397
53697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482
83972241375657056057490261407972968652414535100474
82166370484403199890008895243450658541227588666881
16427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586
17866458359124566529476545682848912883142607690042
24219022671055626321111109370544217506941658960408
07198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188
84580156166097919133875499200524063689912560717606
05886116467109405077541002256983155200055935729725
71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450")

(def solution
(let [as-ints (map int (seq digits))
partitions (partition 5 1 as-ints)
as-products (map #(reduce * %) partitions)]
(max as-products)))
(println solution)

[Timothy Baldridge]

(doc max)

user=> (doc max)

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clojure.core/max

([x] [x y] [x y & more])

  Returns the greatest of the nums.

nil

max doesn't take a sequence, it takes one or more values and finds the max of them. So use (apply max coll) to get what you want. 

Timothy

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