Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find the maximum and minimum values in a C array, but I'm running into a problem. My code calculates the maximum value correctly, but the minimum value is always a very large negative number, even when all the values in the array are positive.

I've tried initializing the min variable to a large positive number, but it doesn't seem to help.

Here's my code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    int i, sum = 0;
    int numbers [5];
    int min, max, average;
    
    printf("enter 5 numbers:\n");
    
    for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
    {
        scanf("%d", &numbers[i]);
        sum += numbers[i];
    }
    
    max = numbers[i];
    min = numbers[i];
    
    for (i = 0; i < 5 ; i++)
    {
        if (numbers[i] > max)
        {
            max = numbers[i];
        }
        if (numbers[i] < min)
        {
            min = numbers[i];
        }
        
    }
    
    average = (double)sum/5;
    
    printf("Average is %d and sum is %d\n", average, sum);
    printf("Max number is %d and the min number is %d\n", max, min);
    
}

Can anyone help me figure out what's going wrong?

Thanks!