Tuple Slicing confusion

Question

A quiz had this command in it.
nums = (55, 44, 33, 22)
print(max(min(nums[:2]), abs(-42)))
The answer is 44 somehow, but isn't the min(nums[:2]) 33? abs(-42) is 42, so it should print 42! I don't understand this yet.

Answer 1

indexing starts at 0 ;nums [:2] is 44 and due to the way u wrote o code min (nums [:2]) IS 44
HENCE max (44, abs (-42)) is 44