I'm trying to find the number of values in a column that equal the maximum value of that column.

If it didn't return a -0-, this is what I would like to do:

=COUNTIF(B3:B723, "=MAX(B3:B723)")

If the column contained: (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 2),
I would like (3) returned.