Fastest way of finding the middle value of a triple?

Question

Given is an array of three numeric values and I\'d like to know the middle value of the three.

The question is, what is the fastest way of finding the midd

Answer 1

This one will work:

template T median3_1_gt_2(const T& t1, const T& t2, const T& t3) {
    if (t3>t1) {
        return t1;
    } else {
        return std::max(t2, t3);
    }
}
template T median3(const T& t1, const T& t2, const T& t3) {
    if (t1>t2) {
        return median3_1_gt_2(t1, t2, t3);
    } else {
        return median3_1_gt_2(t2, t1, t3);
    }
}

https://github.com/itroot/firing-ground/blob/864e26cdfced8394f8941c8c9d97043da8f998b4/source/median3/main.cpp