Here in this article, we will see how we can find the n maximum element from the array using Javascript.
Example:
Input: arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], n = 3;
Output: 4, 5, 6
Explanation: Here we will see the 3 largest elements in the given array are 4, 5, 6.Input: arr = [5, 76, 32, 98, 52, 57] n = 2;
Output: 98 , 76
There are two ways to find out the solution, we will learn both of them one by one:
Brute Force Approach: We will first make an array named largArr having a length equal to n. Then for each index of largArr, we will fill the element from the array one by one
Example: If we have n=3 then array largArr will be having a length equal to 3 then we will run for loop one by one to fill the element in the largArr.
Javascript
let largArr = new Array();let arr = new Array(93, 17, 56, 91, 98, 33, 9, 38, 55, 78, 29, 81, 60);function largest() { largArr[0] = 0; largArr[1] = 0; largArr[2] = 0; for (i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { if (arr[i] > largArr[0]) { largArr[0] = arr[i]; } } for (i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { if (arr[i] > largArr[1] && arr[i] < largArr[0]) { largArr[1] = arr[i]; } } for (i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { if (arr[i] > largArr[2] && arr[i] < largArr[1]) { largArr[2] = arr[i]; } } console.log(largArr[0]); console.log(largArr[1]); console.log(largArr[2]);}largest(); |
Output:
98 93 91
Optimized Solution: We first sort the array in decreasing order and then we run the loop for the length equal to n and print the first n largest elements.
Example:
Javascript
let largArr = new Array();let arr = new Array(93, 17, 56, 91, 98, 33, 9, 38, 55, 78, 29, 81, 60);findLargest3();function findLargest3() { arr.sort((a, b) => a < b ? 1 : a > b ? -1 : 0); console.log(arr[0]); console.log(arr[1]); console.log(arr[2]); console.log(arr.slice(0, 3));} |
Output:
98 93 91 [98,93,91]
