Finding out which integer is smallest

[chemicalNova]

What is even in the chapter? We can't really say anything before knowing that. It's probably just asking you to have some nested if's. Even perhaps something like:

int smallest = a;
 
if (b < a)
    smallest = b;
if (c < b)
    smallest = c;
if (c < a)
    smallest = c;

..etc.

chem

[Yerallo]

Write a program that inputs three integers from the keyboards and prints the sum, average,
product, smallest and largest of these numbers.

anyone else?? I'm stuck on telling which number is smallest.

[sunburnt]

Find the minimum of two values; then find the minimum of your selected minimum and the other value.

If you had a function MIN(a,b) which returned the lesser of two values:

int a, b, c;

min = MIN(a, b);
min = MIN(min, c);

// min is the minimum value.

your min function might do this:

if (a < b)
  return a; // a is less than b
else
  return b; // b is less than a OR a = b (they are both the 'min')

Hope this helps!

[Yerallo]

Find the minimum of two values; then find the minimum of your selected minimum and the other value.

If you had a function MIN(a,b) which returned the lesser of two values:

int a, b, c;

min = MIN(a, b);
min = MIN(min, c);

// min is the minimum value.

your min function might do this:

if (a < b)
  return a; // a is less than b
else
  return b; // b is less than a OR a = b (they are both the 'min')

Hope this helps!

I'm srry I haven't gotten to that stuff yet and in the chapter it says i'm only suppose to use what I have learned so far. Is there like an equation or something to find out which of the numbers given is smallest?