Java Program for finding the largest element of the array

October 6, 2022

Largest Element of the array using Java

Here, in this page we will discuss the program to find the largest element of the array using java. We are given with an array and we need to print the largest element among the given elements of the array.

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Here, we will discuss the following methods to find the maximum element of the array.

  • Method 1 : Using Iteration
  • Method 2 : Using recursion Top-down Approach
  • Method 3 : Bottom-up approach

Method 1 :

  • Declare a variable say max and initialize it with array first element.
  • Run a loop from index 1 to N, and check
  • If arr[i]>max, then set max = arr[i]
  • After complete iteration print max.

Method 1 : code in Java

Run 
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main
{
  public static void main(String args[])
  {

     int arr[] = {12, 13, 1, 10, 34, 10};

     int max = arr[0];

     for(int i=0; i<arr.length; i++)
     {
       if(max < arr[i])
       {
          max = arr[i];
       }

     }

    System.out.print(max); 
  }
}

Output :

34
 
 

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Method 2 :

  • Create a recursive function say getmax(int arr[], int n)
  • Base Condition : if(n==1) return arr[0]
  • Otherwise, return max(arr[n-1], getmax(arr, n-1))
Largest Element of the array using java

Method 2 : Code in Java

Run

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.*;

public class Main
{ 
   static int getmax(int arr[], int n){
       if(n==1)
       return arr[0];

       return Math.max(arr[n-1], getmax(arr, n-1));
   }
   public static void main(String args[])
   {

      int arr[] = {12, 13, 1, 10, 34, 10};
      int n = arr.length;
      System.out.print(getmax(arr, n)); 
   }
}

Output :

34

Method 3 :

Call a function : maximum(int arr[], int i, int end)

  • With initial call up values as maximum(arr, 0, end)
    • Initially passing end as the index of last array element
    • Initially passing ‘i’ as 0
  • Recursively reach iteration where reading 2nd last element
  • Find larger between 2nd last and last array elements
  • And return the result to max value of the previous recursive iteration
  • In each of the remaining recursive callups find the largest b/w current array index element and current max value
  • Pass final max value from last recursive callup to main and print

Method 3 : Code in Java

Run 
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.*;

public class Main
{ 
   static int maximum(int arr[], int i, int end)
   {
      int max;

      // when we reach 2nd last array element
      // return the larger b/w last & 2nd last elements
      if(i == end-1)
         return (arr[i] > arr[i + 1]) ? arr[i] : arr[i + 1];

      max = maximum(arr, i + 1, end);

      return (arr[i] > max) ? arr[i] : max;
   }

   public static void main(String args[])
   {

     int arr[] = {12, 13, 1, 10, 34, 10};
     int end = arr.length-1;
     System.out.print(maximum(arr, 0, end)); 
   }
}

Output :

34

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One comment on “Java Program for finding the largest element of the array”


  • VIGNESHWARAN S 20ita62

    import java.util.*;
    public class largereleinarray {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in);
    int n=sc.nextInt();
    int a[]=new int[n];
    int max=0;
    for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
    {
    a[i]=sc.nextInt();
    if(max<a[i])
    {
    max=a[i];
    }
    }
    System.out.println(max);

    }

    }