how to initialize the “min” variable properly?

Question

I have a small problem in my code for finding the minimum value from a series of numbers. When I initialize min = 0, the minimum value turns out as 0. But when I do

Answer 1

If you don't initialize a local variable, its value is indeterminate, and using that will lead to undefined behavior.

What you should do is initialize it to a large value, just like you initialize max to a small value. Use INT_MAX from the header file.

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Also, if your variables can't be negative, you should probably use unsigned int, and initialize min to UINT_MAX.