I don't understand why we should try to dothis question here,if people are not familar with recursion,they have a hard time to do this for sure XD.

public class Solution { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); int a = Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine()); int b = Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine()); int c = Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine()); int d = Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine()); int e = Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine()); int minimum = min(a,b,c,d,e); System.out.println("Minimum = " + minimum); }