Probléme "La méthode min doit renvoyer le plus petit des nombres a, b et c"

Bonjour ! Pareil, même problème la dernière étape n'est toujours pas valider..

right, did you try 5, 5, 10? The correct output would be 5, but this code is outputting 10. That is a bug that will need to be fixed.

Oui, j'ai bien modifie et vérifié toujours "non validé"..

what is your code now?

package fr.codegym.task.task02.task0216; /* Le plus petit de trois nombres */ public class Solution { public static int min(int a, int b, int c) { if (a < b & a < c) return a; if (b < a & b < c ) return b; else return c; } public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { System.out.println(min(1, 2, 3)); System.out.println(min(-1, -2, -3)); System.out.println(min(3, 5, 3)); System.out.println(min(5, 5, 10)); } }

The correct output for this code should be: 1 -3 3 5 But when I run it the output I get is: 1 -3 3 10 The problem that this code has is the assumption that if (a > b) is true, then (a < b) must be false, or visa versa. This is a very common misconception with programmers who are learning to understand computer logic, and one I too made myself when I was new to programming. There is a third possibility that needs to be considered and that is that 'a' and 'b' could be equal. If they are equal then both (a > b) and (a < b) would be false because a would not be greater than or less than b in that case. So because equality is not checked in this code, whenever you have equal numbers the min method will return "c". That is why the inputs 5, 5, 10 return '10' for the min

Ok thank you for the explanation everything and much clearer now! I'll try to send you a message here if I succeed!

Here I changed the = by <= now it works! Thanks a lot!

package fr.codegym.task.task02.task0216;

/*
Le plus petit de trois nombres
*/
public class Solution {
    public static int min(int a, int b, int c) {
        if (a <= b & a <= c)
            return a;
        else if(b <= a & b <= c)
            return b;
        else
            return c;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        System.out.println(min(1, 2, 3));
        System.out.println(min(-1, -2, -3));
        System.out.println(min(3, 5, 3));
        System.out.println(min(5, 5, 10));
    }

}