Exercize to understand from three numbers which is more high

[Bob van der Poel]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:52 PM Adrian Ordona <adrian.ordona at gmail.com>
wrote:

> i'm also a beginner reading all the replies helps.
> i was trying the problem myself and came up with the below code with a
> users input.
>
>
> num1 = int(input("Enter first number: "))num2 = int(input("Enter second
> number: "))num3 = int(input("Enter third number: "))if num1 > num2 and num1
> > num3: print(num1, " is th max number")elif num2 > num1 and num2 > num3:
> print(num2, " is the max number")else: print(num3, "is the max number")
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:48 PM Schachner, Joseph <
> Joseph.Schachner at teledyne.com> wrote:
>
> > Explanation: 5 > 4 so it goes into the first if.  5 is not greater than
> 6,
> > so it does not assign N1 to MaxNum.  The elif (because of the lack of
> > indent) applies to the first if, so nothing further is executed. Nothing
> > has been assigned to MaxNum, so that variable does not exist.  You're
> > right, it does not work.
> >
> > How about this:
> > Mylist = [ N1, N2, N3]
> > Maxnum = N1
> > for value in Mylist:
> >     if value > Maxnum:
> >         Maxnum = value
> > print(Maxnum)
> >
> > Or were lists and for loops excluded from this exercise?
> > --- Joe S.
> >
> > On 1/29/19 9:27 AM, Jack Dangler wrote:
> >
> > > wow. Seems like a lot going on. You have 3 ints and need to determine
> > > the max? Doesn't this work?
> > >
> > > N1, N2, N3
> > >
> > > if N1>N2
> > >    if N1>N3
> > >      MaxNum = N1
> > > elif N2>N3
> > >    MaxNum = N2
> > > elif N1<N3
> > >    MaxNum = N3
> >
> > No.  Assuing that you meant to include colons where I think you did, what
> > if (N1, N2, N3) == (5, 4, 6)?
> >
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Isn't the easiest way to do this is:

     sorted( [n1,n2,n3] )[-1]

to get the largest value?

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