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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+from collections import Counter
+import sys
+
+
+def maximum_frequency(ints: list) -> str:
+ """
+ Calculate the maximum frequency of elements in a list and returns the
+ number of elements with that appear with this frequency.
+
+ Args:
+ ints (list): A list of integers.
+
+ Returns:
+ str: The number of elements with appear most frequency.
+ """
+ # Convert the list in a frequency dictionary
+ freq = Counter(ints)
+ max_freq = max(freq.values())
+
+ # Count the number of elements with the maximum frequency
+ elements = sum(1 for v in freq.values() if v == max_freq)
+
+ # Multiply the number of elements by the frequency
+ return elements * max_freq
+
+
+def main():
+ # Convert input into integers
+ array = [int(n) for n in sys.argv[1:]]
+ result = maximum_frequency(array)
+ print(result)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ main()