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

This is how I would implement three_sort without any if statements or ternary operators. You would have to adapt this to your language of choice.

def two_sort(a, b):
    small = int(a < b)  * a + int(a >= b) * b
    large = int(a >= b) * a + int(a < b)  * b
    return small, large

def three_sort(a, b, c):
    a, b = two_sort(a, b)
    a, c = two_sort(a, c)
    b, c = two_sort(b, c)
    return a, b, c

for a more general solution:

from random    import randint

def two_sort(a, b):
    small = int(a < b)  * a + int(a >= b) * b
    large = int(a >= b) * a + int(a < b)  * b
    return small, large

    return li[-1]

def n_sort(li):
    for _ in li:
        for i, _ in enumerate(li[:-1]):
            li[i], li[i+1] = two_sort(li[i], li[i+1])
    return li

N = 10
li = [randint(0, 1000) for _ in range(N)]
print(N_Sort(N)(*li))