From 1260b5293f8efacaa902fe33d6dc82d3ddc638bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Muhammad Jarir Kanji <52061313+mjkanji@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 05:49:54 +0500
Subject: DOC: Update amin/amax return description. (#22362)

Update return description to account for case when axis is a tuple
of integers, noting the shape of the returned array.
---
 numpy/core/fromnumeric.py | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'numpy/core/fromnumeric.py')

diff --git a/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py b/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py
index f4c7af88a..89d731e32 100644
--- a/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py
+++ b/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py
@@ -2750,8 +2750,9 @@ def amax(a, axis=None, out=None, keepdims=np._NoValue, initial=np._NoValue,
     -------
     amax : ndarray or scalar
         Maximum of `a`. If `axis` is None, the result is a scalar value.
-        If `axis` is given, the result is an array of dimension
-        ``a.ndim - 1``.
+        If `axis` is an int, the result is an array of dimension
+        ``a.ndim - 1``. If `axis` is a tuple, the result is an array of 
+        dimension ``a.ndim - len(axis)``.
 
     See Also
     --------
@@ -2875,8 +2876,9 @@ def amin(a, axis=None, out=None, keepdims=np._NoValue, initial=np._NoValue,
     -------
     amin : ndarray or scalar
         Minimum of `a`. If `axis` is None, the result is a scalar value.
-        If `axis` is given, the result is an array of dimension
-        ``a.ndim - 1``.
+        If `axis` is an int, the result is an array of dimension
+        ``a.ndim - 1``.  If `axis` is a tuple, the result is an array of 
+        dimension ``a.ndim - len(axis)``.
 
     See Also
     --------
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