FETCH LARGEST NUMBERS

I HAVE A SET OF 10 NUMBERS .
AND I WANT THE OUT PUT TO BE THE LARGEST THREE NUMBERS FROM THE ABOVE SET....... THANKS IN ADVANCE

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Matt Fig
Matt Fig on 1 Mar 2011

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1. Take the capslock off.
2. Sort your array in descending order. Use the SORT function.
3. Take the first 3 numbers in the sorted array.

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thanks for the reply ....cool idea ... i cannot take the first three number out of the array.....
Jan
Jan on 1 Mar 2011
Well, Matlab can. What have you tried and where did which problems occur?
Matt Fig means: x = rand(1, 10); s = sort(x, 2, 'ascending'); largest3 = s(1:3)

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