programming-examples/c/Recursion/C Program to Find the Biggest Number in an Array of Numbers using Recursion.c
2019-11-15 12:59:38 +01:00

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/*
* C Program to find the Biggest Number in an Array of Numbers using
* Recursion
*/
#include <stdio.h>
int large(int[], int, int);
int main()
{
int size;
int largest;
int list[20];
int i;
printf("Enter size of the list:");
scanf("%d", &size);
printf("Printing the list:\n");
for (i = 0; i < size ; i++)
{
list[i] = rand() % size;
printf("%d\t", list[i]);
}
if (size == 0)
{
printf("Empty list\n");
}
else
{
largest = list[0];
largest = large(list, size - 1, largest);
printf("\nThe largest number in the list is: %d\n", largest);
}
}
int large(int list[], int size, int largest)
{
if (size == 1)
return largest;
if (size > -1)
{
if (list[size] > largest)
{
largest = list[size];
}
return(largest = large(list, size - 1, largest));
}
else
{
return largest;
}
}