Why int result get initialise with INT_MIN

#1

Greetings to the team,
I want to know why this step has been done

  1. int result= INT_MIN;
    why can’t we directly take result as INT_MAX?
#2

hi @Tanvi-Varshney-250726472940778
if you take it a variable result = INT_MIN
and calculate an ans .
and update the result like result = max(result, ans)
then the result will be updated with the answer you calculated

But if you initialise result = INT_MAX
and calculate ans
and update the result like result = max(result, ans)
result will NOT get updates, because INT_MAX will always be greater than anything you put in ans variable

#3

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