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Doc request: indicate constexpr support for algorithms

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cpp
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Review the Boost.Algorithm documentation and compare its algorithm entries with the C++14 constexpr support described in the issue. Done means the relevant documentation clearly indicates which algorithms support constexpr, without implying unsupported coverage.

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Hi,
I believe most if not all of the algorithms in boost are constexpr if the compiler supports it and C++14 or greater is used. (yes?)

That's not indicated in the docs, as far as I can tell. I recently implemented a couple myself because I assumed the boost ones were not, from the docs; and at the time I didn't go look in the source code to see that they actually were. (yeah, I was being an idiot)

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