Math Is Fun Forum

gotcha...thanks for that

so again back to my question, how would you find the largest number in a subset? or the largest number within A subset

uh thanks folks, sorry i dont understand or know what this whole formula thing is (the whole max { w, x, y, z}.....

thanks for the code, yes I follow it and you are right I DID miss setting the largeNumber to the first element in the array.

drats. ok.... so basically you should be checking the NEXT number in the array to see if it is larger than the stored number in a temp variable. - but there is no point in doing that in your code since your kind of doubling the check....

foreach item in array

if currentitem + 1 in array > storedNumber

.. do stuff

end if

it is the same as:

for each item in array
if current item > storedNumber

//do stuff

end if

with the last example being more effecient....but anyway thats a coding thing.

just still not sure about the whole B is a subset of A...C is a subset of B (and A?)