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

You must initialize min with a large number, otherwise 0 might remain as the smallest number.

You can initialize min as

int min = INT_MAX;

INT_MAX is the largest value that can be held by an int( Must add for INT_MAX ).

If you don't initialize min with a value, then it will have an indeterminate value, which can be anything, so always initialize your local variables before using their values..