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Re: assigning the maximum of two numbers

by kirbyk (Friar)
on Nov 02, 2005 at 22:56 UTC ( #505165=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to assigning the maximum of two numbers

Edit: Sorry, I misread the question entirely.

I would probably go with the ternary for readability in most cases, but if you're doing this in a critical part of your application, it looks like sort/shift is optimized well. Neat.


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