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Whitti1
Whitti1

Reputation: 55

finding largest of 5 numbers in JavaScript

Need to find the largest of a series of numbers, but the numbers must come from user input. For this assignment the JavaScript must be written in HTML doc, this is what I have so far:

function getLargest(a,b,c,d,e){
  let numArray = [b,c,d,e];
  let largest = a;

  for(let item of numArray){
    if(item > largest){
      largest = item;
    }
  }
  return largest;
  document.getElementById('largest').innerHTML = largest
}
let a = prompt("Enter 1st Number");
let b = prompt("Enter 2nd Number");
let c = prompt("Enter 3rd Number");
let d = prompt("Enter 4th Number");
let e = prompt("Enter 5th Number");

getLargest (a,b,c,d,e);
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    
    <h2>The Largest number is:</h2> 
    <p id = "largest"></p>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1910

Answers (2)

tranminhquang
tranminhquang

Reputation: 115

you could write the getLargest function like this:

function getLargest(...nums) {
  let max_value = Math.max(...nums);
  return max_value;
}

Upvotes: 2

klonoa123
klonoa123

Reputation: 738

Your code returns largest before it gets to document.getElementById('largest').innerHTML = largest.

Additionally, you can just use Math.max(...numArray) to get the maximum instead of all the code you have to find largest.

Upvotes: 3

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