3 numbers in ascending order WITHOUT the use of conditional statements in Java. As in I can't use if statements at all

Question

My code looks like this so far:

public class ThreeSort {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        int num1 = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
        int          


        

Answer 1

in this case there is a simple algorithm for it:

mid = Math.max(Math.min(num1,num2), Math.min(Math.max(num1,num2),num3));

Also as the operator ^ denotes bitwise xor. so another way is:

mid=num1^num2^num3^max^min;

EXAMPLE:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(mid(70, 3, 10));
}

static int mid(int a, int b, int c) {
    int mx = Math.max(Math.max(a, b), c);
    int mn = Math.min(Math.min(a, b), c);
    int md = a ^ b ^ c ^ mx ^ mn;
    return md;
}

OUTPUT: 10.

Also as OldCurmudgeon said below you can calculate the mid with below formula:

int mid = num1 + num2 + num3 - min - max;