Question

The process of finding the largest value is used frequently in computer applications. For example, a program that determines the winner of a sales contest would input the number of units sold by each salesperson. The salesperson who sells the most units wins the contest. Write a Ruby application that allows a user to input a series of 10 integers and determines and prints the largest integer. Your program should use at least the following three variables: a) counter: A counter to count to 10 (i.e., to keep track of how many numbers have been input and to determine when all 10 numbers have been processed). b) number: The integer most recently input by the user. c) largest: The largest number found so far.

Answer 1

Source Code in Ruby:

counter=0 #keeping a counter of numbers input
number=gets.to_i #taking first number as input
largest=number #storing the current largest number
counter+=1 #incrementing counter since one number is entered
while counter<10 do #running the loop till all 10 numbers are input
number=gets.to_i #taking next number as input
if number>largest #if current number is greater than current largest number
largest=number #we update current largest number
end
counter+=1 #incrementing counter
end
puts "Largest number is "+largest.to_s #output

1 counter-0 #keeping a counter of numbers input 2 number-gets.to_1 #taking first number as input 3 largest-number #storing the current Largest number 4 counter- 1 #incrementing counter since one number is entered 5. while counterc 10 do #running the Loop till all 10 numbers are input number-gets.to_1 #taking next number as input if number»largest #if current number is greater than current Largest number 7- largest-number #we update current Largest number end 9 10 counter+ 1 #incrementing counter 11 end 12 puts "Largest number is "+largest.to_s #output!

Input:

24133151 4ーm258152

Output:

Sruby main.rb Largest number is 83