Second Max

Computer Science Level 3

Find the second largest number in this file .

Note : The file contains 10000 space-separated integers . All of them fits in a 32-bit integer.

Current Winner : 展豪 張
Language : Python
Length : 43

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The answer is 999782821.

Christopher Boo by Christopher Boo , 24, Singapore

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展豪 張
Jul 12, 2016

python (60) (this python file is in the same folder of the txt file, txt renamed)
(this is actually a quite long programme......) 

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f=open('a.txt')  
print(sorted(map(int,f.read().split()))[-2])

EDIT: python (43) (assuming the texts are fed into the standard input)
(still quite long......) 

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print(sorted(map(int,input().split()))[-2])

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