Deprecate bitmax. * NEWS: Announce deprecation and replacement functions. * scripts/deprecated/bitmax.m: New function. Add deprecation message to docstring. Add deprecation warning to m-file. * scripts/deprecated/module.mk: Add deprecated versions to build system. * libinterp/corefcn/bitfcns.cc: Remove build-in function. Remove function from docstrings. * libinterp/corefcn/data.cc: Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/general/bitcmp.m: Replace bitmax function calls with flintmax. Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/general/bitget.m: Replace bitmax function calls with flintmax. Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/general/bitset.m: Replace bitmax function calls with flintmax. Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/specfun/factor.m: Replace bitmax function calls with flintmax. Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/statistics/distributions/unidpdf.m: Remove function from docstrings. * scripts/general/num2str.m: Replaced function in comment. * doc/interpreter/doccheck/aspell-octave.en.pws: Remove functions from list. * doc/interpreter/numbers.txi: Remove function from manual.

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