max - Find the smallest amongst 3 numbers in C++

Question

(This question already has answers here): question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9424173/find-the-smallest-amongst-3-numbers-in-c

Answer 1

If possible, I recommend using C++11 or newer which allows you to compute the desired result w/out implementing your own function (std::min). As already pointed out in one of the comments, you can do

T minimum(std::min({x, y, z}));

or

T minimum = std::min({x, y, z});

which stores the minimum of the variables x, y and z in the variable minimum of type T (note that x, y and z must have the same type or have to be implicitly convertible to it). Correspondingly, the same can be done to obtain a maximum: std::max({x, y, z}).