functions function calls in the context of programminga function is named sequence of statements that performs computation when you define functionyou specify the name and the sequence of statements lateryou can "callthe function by name we have already seen one example of function calltype( the name of the function is type the expression in parentheses is called the argument of the function the argument is value or variable that we are passing into the function as input to the function the resultfor the type functionis the type of the argument it is common to say that function "takesan argument and "returnsa result the result is called the return value built-in functions python provides number of important built-in functions that we can use without needing to provide the function definition the creators of python wrote set of functions to solve common problems and included them in python for us to use the max and min functions give us the largest and smallest values in listrespectivelymax('hello world''wmin('hello world'