@coja I am the engineer because I forget about Math.max existence
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Engineer likely ends up with the smallest code. Though the hit to execution time for a branch sucks. (Pipelines and such)
Bit hacker will take the least execution time because of pipelines, but it needs more comments. Maybe something like // trust me, this works.
I use 8, but only when I'm operating on unsigned longs.
Max11 is all my code. Why doesn't it work????🤔
Yoink.
Actually I've probably been all of these at various times in my career.
here’s another mathematical approach (that has the added benefit of only working when x and y are both positive).
let f denote the linear functional on ℝ^2^ defined by f(1,0) = x and f(0,1) = y (and extend by linearity). then the operator norm || f || is equal to max(x,y).
I'm mostly lost and in over my head
Why use
const max = (x, y) => x > y ? x : y
instead of
function max(x, y) { return x > y ? x : y } ?
2, but I'm incredibly embarrassed to say that I've had to do 9 before
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my $max = $x > $y ? $x : $y;