Find the max of 3 numbers in Java with different data types

Question

Say I have the following three constants:

final static int MY_INT1 = 25;
final static int MY_INT2 = -10;
final static double MY_DOUBLE1 = 15.5;

Answer 1

Without using third party libraries, calling the same method more than once or creating an array, you can find the maximum of an arbitrary number of doubles like so

public static double max(double... n) {
    int i = 0;
    double max = n[i];

    while (++i < n.length)
        if (n[i] > max)
            max = n[i];

    return max;
}

In your example, max could be used like this

final static int MY_INT1 = 25;
final static int MY_INT2 = -10;
final static double MY_DOUBLE1 = 15.5;

public static void main(String[] args) {
    double maxOfNums = max(MY_INT1, MY_INT2, MY_DOUBLE1);
}