Program to find largest and smallest among 5 numbers without using array

Question

Yesterday I went for an interview where I have been asked to create a program to find largest and smallest among 5 numbers without using array.

I know how to create

Answer 1

You could use list (or vector), which is not an array:

#include
#include
#include
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    list l;
    l.push_back(3); 
    l.push_back(9); 
    l.push_back(30);    
    l.push_back(0); 
    l.push_back(5); 

    list::iterator it_max = max_element(l.begin(), l.end());
    list::iterator it_min = min_element(l.begin(), l.end());

    cout << "Max: " << *it_max << endl;
    cout << "Min: " << *it_min << endl;
}