Minimum and Maximum Values

I am trying to display the minimum and maximum values of my program. My program allows the user to input a bunch of numbers and it calculates the average. I am not allowed to use arrays or vectors and I am having trouble getting the minimum and maximum statements to work. Minimum keeps reading 0 and maximum does not work. Thanks appreciate it This is my program:

i=0;

a=99;

b=99;

Minimum=0;

Maximum=0;

for counter=1:stop

Numbers=input('Enter a number');

i=i+Numbers;

if Numbers>=a; if true

Maximum=Numbers;

else Maximum=Numbers;

Numbers<=b;

Minimum=Numbers;

end

a=Numbers;

b=Numbers;

Average=i/stop

fprintf('The minimum value is %g. The maximum value is %g',Minimum,Maximum)

[Sachin Ganjare]

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[Walter Roberson]

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Answer 1

[Swaroopa]

Hi Raffi,

You can try the code in the following way.

i=0;

stop=3;

Numbers=input('Enter a number');

maximum=Numbers;

minimum=Numbers;

for counter=1:stop-1

Numbers=input('Enter a number');

i=i+Numbers;

if Numbers>=maximum

maximum=Numbers;

else Numbers<=minimum

minimum=Numbers;

end

end

a=Numbers;

b=Numbers;

Average=i/stop;

fprintf('The minimum value is %g. The maximum value is %g',minimum,maximum)

Hope it helps.