[Tutor] Find the Greatest number out of 3 (Python 3.7.0)

[Adam Eyring]

What's happening is that the print statements output strings. Change them
to variables like number1, number2, and number3 (no quotation marks) and it
should work.


On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 7:24 PM Aliyan Navaid <aliyan.navaid at gmail.com> wrote:

>    number1 = input('Number1: ')
>
>    number2 = input('Number2: ')
>
>    number3 = input('Number3: ')
>
>
>
>    if number3 > number2 and number3 > number1:
>
>        print('Number 3')
>
>
>
>    elif number2 > number1 and number2 > number3:
>
>        print("Number 2")
>
>
>
>    else:
>
>        print('Number 1')
>
>
>
>
>
>    When given values Number1 = 423, Number 2 = 23 and Number 3 = 43 the
>    program outputs “Number3” even though the correct answer should’ve been
>    Number 1. Can somebody please explain why is this program not
> functioning
>    properly ?
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