Second Largest Item
June 2, 2017
Today’s exercise is only slightly tricky:
Write a program to find the second largest item in an array. Use the least possible number of comparisons.
Your task is to write a program to find the second largest item in an array using the least possible number of comparisons. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
Programming Praxis 