get closest value to a number in array

Question

I have an array of positive/negative ints

int[] numbers = new int[10];
numbers[0] = 100;
numbers[1] = -34200;
numbers[2] = 3040;
numbers[3] = 400433;
numbers         


        

Answer 1

you are very close. I think the initial value of 'distance' should be a big number instead of 0. And use the absolute value for the cdistance.