Exercize to understand from three numbers which is more high

[Ian Clark]

just the pure number of letters next to parenthesis would cause the Parser
to error out

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:32 PM Schachner, Joseph <
Joseph.Schachner at teledyne.com> wrote:

> Yes, that works.  Assuming it was correctly formatted when you ran it.
> The formatting could not possibly be run in a Python interpreter, I think.
>
> --- Joseph S.
>
> From: Adrian Ordona <adrian.ordona at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 2:52 PM
> To: Schachner, Joseph <Joseph.Schachner at Teledyne.com>
> Cc: Dan Sommers <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com>;
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> Subject: Re: Exercize to understand from three numbers which is more high
>
> 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<mailto: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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