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Highest value from multiple ints

in Programming Questions • 4 months ago

Hi,

I'm trying to compare 3 ints to find which one has the highest amount. Coming from an Arduino background, I coded this:

if(low < med || high){

println("Low is greater than med and high");

}

but I get "The operator || is undefined for the argument types(s) boolean, int"

It seems a pretty logical answer, but I can't seem to find it.

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Chrisir

Re: Highest value from multiple ints

4 months ago

you have to repeat the value "low"

if (low < med || low < high){

println("Low is greater than med and high");

that would be

if (low > med && low > high){

because

&& means "and"
also > means "greater than"

GoToLoop

Re: Highest value from multiple ints

4 months ago

Also, there are functions min() & max() to shortcut your working algorithm!

And about why you can't use low < med || high is b/c most operators are of type binary.

That is, they demand exactly 2 operators to function! 1 to its left and 1 to its right!

Java can't deduce which is the other pair of the lonely high.

PhiLho

Re: Highest value from multiple ints

4 months ago

if(low < med || high){

println("Low is greater than med and high");

Well, the message seems to contradict your intended test...

I would read "low is smaller than med or high".
And, well, if the values in med and high are logical, if it is smaller than med, it is necessarily lower than high!

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