Hi, I have 4 variables whose values can either be some positive number or infinity which I have considered to be 1e+10. My problem is to find out which is the maximum of the four excluding the ones that are infinity. Is there any simple way of doing this without using a really large number of if statements( I haven't tried that either). Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks in Advance. Gaurav.
As far as we know you havent tried anything at all, you have not posted any code.without using a really large number of if statements( I haven't tried that either).
Why do you think there would be loads of IF statements? Based on your description there would only be 4 if you only have four variables to test, one after the other and no other program requirements are specified. That is not a lot at all.
You could do it with a loop but altogether would probably be the same amount of code lines more or less so whats the issue?
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