"roll the dice" challenge C++

Question

Hi there smart people!

So I have this practice challenge and I'm lost on the return part (and some other parts as well lol).
What exactly do I have to return and should I use the "if else" sequence in the main function? Or what?
I don't get it plz send help >.<

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While playing a board game, you and your friend roll the dice and the person who rolled the higher number moves forward.
Write a function that takes two numbers as arguments and returns the higher number of the two. Print the result.
If numbers are equal function must return that number.
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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int max(int num1, int num2) {
//complete the function
}

int main() {
//getting inputs
int first;
cin >> first;
int second;
cin >> second;

//call the function and print result

return 0;
}

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Answer 1

Returning a value means returning it to the caller, i.e. the returned value becomes the value of the function call in its context. That is what makes something like

int foo() { return 1; }
...
int i = foo(); // i = 1

possible. A function to return the greater of two values is only slightly more complex. Since you have to make a decision, you need a conditional, just as you said, but in the function, not in main(). Here is an example using the ternary operator (which is nothing but syntactical sugar for an if-else statement):

int max( int n1, int n2 )
{
return ( n1 < n2 ) ? n2 : n1;
}

This translates to: If n1 is smaller than n2, return n2, else n1.
All that is left is to print the value returned by max(), i.e

cout << max( first, second );

Again, this works because max() returns its value, which is then inserted into the call to std::cout.

Answer 2

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int max(int num1, int num2) {
//complete the function
return (num1<num2)?num2:num1;

}

int main() {
//getting inputs
int first;
cin >> first;
int second;
cin >> second;

//call the function and print result

cout << max(first,second) << endl;

return 0;
}

Answer 3

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int max(int num1, int num2){
//complete the function
if (num1 > num2){
return num 1;
} else if (num1 < num2){
return num2;
} else {
return num1
}
}

int main(){
//getting inputs
int first;
cin >> first;
int second;
cin >> second;

//call the function and print the result
cout << max(first,second) <<endl;

return 0;
}

Answer 4

Thank you so much, didn't know about the ternary operator or maybe didn't get there yet.

Answer 5

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int max(int num1, int num2) {
//complete the function
return (num1<num2)?num2:num1;

}

int main() {
//getting inputs
int first;
cin >> first;
int second;
cin >> second;

//call the function and print result

cout << max(first,second) << endl;

return 0;
}

Good Luck

Answer 6

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int maxd(int a, int b){
return (a>b ? a:b);
}
int main() {

int f, s;
cin >> f >> s;
cout << maxd(f, s);
return 0;
}