Compare 6 numbers for the lowest or highest

[maqleod]

I am looking for an efficient way to compare 6 numbers and find out what the lowest and the highest are. I'm writing a dice roller and I want it to be able to apply functions to the lowest or highest roll, but I need to separate those rolls so I can do that. I looked through the math include and all I found was a way to compare two numbers, and modifying that for 6 would create a very convoluted mess, is there a better way?

[smashly]

Hi,

I don't have an example , but maybe you write the 6 numbers to an array and use _ArraySort() sort function in AutoIt help file under User Defined Functions ->Array Management ->_ArraySort.

Once you've sorted the array you can use first or last element in the array as the highest or lowest value

(depending on the way you sort the array, Descending or Ascending).

Good Luck

Cheers

[BrettF]

Try These:

They return the biggest, and the smallest of the 6 numbers.

Returns The Biggest:

Func _GetBigNumber ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6)
        Local $max = $1
        For $i = 1 to 6
            If $max < Eval($i) Then
                $max = Eval($i)
            EndIf
        Next
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Hope it helps

EDIT: Spelling...

Edited June 11, 2007 by Bert

[Valuater]

_ArraySort()

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[Siao]

_ArraySort()

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It's kinda slow tho. Almost the same as doing

_Min(_Min(_Min(_Min(_Min($n1,$n2),$n3),$n4),$n5),$n6)

_Max(_Max(_Max(_Max(_Max($n1,$n2),$n3),$n4),$n5),$n6)

Bert's last function to return min/max runs twice faster...

Just sayin...

[maqleod]

I forgot to take something into account, I allow the user to select which dice are to be rolled. Meaning of the six dice, they can choose to roll die 1 and die 3. So what I really need now is a way to make the function that selects the lowest or highest number be able to tell which dice were selected and choose the lowest or highest of those.

if I use the function as Bert suggested, I'll get an error parsing function call because some of the variables won't exist if the user doesn't use all 6 dice.

Would the _ArraySort() function make that work better for what I need or is there a way to modify Bert's to make it more efficient?

Edited June 12, 2007 by maqleod

[BrettF]

I forgot to take something into account, I allow the user to select which dice are to be rolled. Meaning of the six dice, they can choose to roll die 1 and die 3. So what I really need now is a way to make the function that selects the lowest or highest number be able to tell which dice were selected and choose the lowest or highest of those.

if I use the function as Bert suggested, I'll get an error parsing function call because some of the variables won't exist if the user doesn't use all 6 dice.

Would the _ArraySort() function make that work better for what I need or is there a way to modify Bert's to make it more efficient?

I guess if you just fill the other numbers with 0s???

[maqleod]

I guess if you just fill the other numbers with 0s???

but won't it then choose those as the lowest number?

[/dev/null]

but won't it then choose those as the lowest number?

I think he implied that you are able to modify the functions to take care about the special value 0 !??!