Doubt in code of minimum steos top down code

Sir/Mam why we keep op1=op2=op3=INT_MAX.

Hi,

We are assuming that number of steps will not be greater than INT_MAX.Since, we are calculating the minimum value we will return INT_MAX if we do not go through certain path.

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