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How to find the greatest of three numbers without using any comparison
operator or ternary operator??

Amar Kumar Dubedy wrote, On 01/07/07 07:36:
> How to find the greatest of three numbers without using any comparison
> operator or ternary operator??

Put them all in a ring, throw weapons in, and wait to see which one
comes out alive.

If it is homework, do it yourself, if you are doing some stupid quiz, do
it yourself. People *might* help if you post an attempt here, but why
should we do it for you?
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"Amar Kumar Dubedy" <> wrote in message
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> How to find the greatest of three numbers without using any comparison
> operator or ternary operator??
>
If the numbers are positive integers

a/b is zero if b is greater than a.

C allows an implict comparison to zero, so

if(a/b) is equivalent to if( b > a)

and you can build a first stab around that.

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Amar Kumar Dubedy said:

> How to find the greatest of three numbers without using any comparison
> operator or ternary operator??

Ensure that one of the numbers is LDBL_MAX, and simply return LDBL_MAX
from your solving function. That way, you don't need any operators of
any kind at all.

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"Amar Kumar Dubedy" <> ha scritto nel messaggio news: ups.com...
> How to find the greatest of three numbers without using any comparison
> operator or ternary operator??

#include <stdlib.h>
....
if (a - b == abs(a - b))...

(but beware of overflows...)

HTH.

In article <vJJhi.125182$> ,
Chris Dollin <> wrote:
>Army1987 wrote:

>>> How to find the greatest of three numbers without using any comparison
>>> operator or ternary operator??

>> #include <stdlib.h>
>> ...
>> if (a - b == abs(a - b))...

>In what way is `==` not a comparison operator?

Perhaps Army was thinking of "relational operator", which C defines
as not including the equality operators.

-- Richard
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Army1987 wrote:

> "Amar Kumar Dubedy" <> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news: ups.com...
>> How to find the greatest of three numbers without using any comparison
>> operator or ternary operator??
>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> ...
> if (a - b == abs(a - b))...

In what way is `==` not a comparison operator?

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Army1987 said:

>
> "Amar Kumar Dubedy" <> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news: ups.com...
>> How to find the greatest of three numbers without using any
>> comparison operator or ternary operator??
>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> ...
> if (a - b == abs(a - b))...

== can be regarded as a comparison operator.

> (but beware of overflows...)

That's another problem.

The Right Thing here is to use comparison operators - specifically the
'greater-than' operator:

max = a;
if(b > max) { max = b; }
if(c > max) { max = c; }

Therefore, the question is mistaken.

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In article <. com>,
Amar Kumar Dubedy <> wrote:

>How to find the greatest of three numbers without using any comparison
>operator or ternary operator??

Do you really need to determine which of them it is, or would it be
sufficient to return a number equal to the greatest one?

-- Richard




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"Richard Tobin" <> ha scritto nel messaggio news:f67osm$1o3d$...
> In article <vJJhi.125182$> ,
> Chris Dollin <> wrote:
>>Army1987 wrote:
>
>>>> How to find the greatest of three numbers without using any comparison
>>>> operator or ternary operator??
>
>>> #include <stdlib.h>
>>> ...
>>> if (a - b == abs(a - b))...
>
>>In what way is `==` not a comparison operator?
>
> Perhaps Army was thinking of "relational operator", which C defines
> as not including the equality operators.

if (!(a - b - abs(a - b))
(But beware of disasters...)