Mathematically Find Max Value without Conditional Comparison

Question

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codymanix and moonshadow have been a big help thus far. I was able to solve my problem using the equations and instead of using right

Answer 1

You can express this as a series of arithmetic and bitwise operations, e.g.:

int myabs(const int& in) {
  const int tmp = in >> ((sizeof(int) * CHAR_BIT) - 1);
  return tmp - (in ^ tmp(;
}

int mymax(int a, int b) {
    return ((a+b) + myabs(b-a)) / 2;
}