Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > I am pretty convinced that to get the > perfect solution, the max_c function needs to know min_a and min_b too.
Absolutely! :) I had just started writing an e-mail about it. Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> On to the next task: compute minOR and maxOR for _signed_ values. It >> turns out minOR its also nontrivial... How about computing minOR for unsigned values first? ;)The proposed solution of max(min_a, min_b) is correct only for a couple of corner cases.
Ali