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Program to Find the Largest Two Numbers in a given Array



Program to Find the Largest Two Numbers in a given Array

This C Program calculates the largest of two numbers in a given Array. First it accepts an array, then compares the elements and finds which is the largest two element in a given array.


    /*    C program to read in four integer numbers into an array and find the average of largest two of the given numbers without sorting the array. The program should output the given four numbers and the average.     */

    #include <stdio.h>

    #define MAX 4

    void main()

    {

        int array[MAX], j, largest1, largest2, temp;

        printf("Enter %d integer numbers \n", MAX);

        for (j = 0; j < MAX; j++)

        {

            scanf("%d", &array[j]);

        }

        printf("Input integer are \n");

        for (j = 0; j < MAX; j++)

        {

          printf("%5d", array[j]);

        }

        printf("\n");

        /*  assume first element of array is the first larges t*/

        largest1 = array[0];

        /*  assume first element of array is the second largest */

        largest2 = array[1];

        if (largest1 < largest2)

        {

            temp = largest1;

            largest1 = largest2;

            largest2 = temp;

        }

        for (j = 2; j < 4;	j++)

        {

            if (array[j] >= largest1)

            {

                largest2 = largest1;

                largest1 = array[j];

            }

            else if (array[j] > largest2)

            {

                largest2 = array[j];

            }

        }

        printf("n%d is the first largest \n", largest1);

        printf("%d is the second largest \n", largest2);

        printf("nAverage of %d and %d = %d \n", largest1, largest2,

    (largest1 + largest2) / 2);

    }