If I have variables with numbers how to figure out which are the three with the highest value?

I have two tables table1 and table2. Table2 is having less number of rows than table1. In these two tables there are two date columns caldate1 in table1 and caldate2 in table2. So now I need to join ...

Here s the code: a = [1,2,3,4] b = {} b[1] = 10 b[2] = 8 b[3] = 7 b[4] = 5 print max(a,key=lambda w: b[w]) This prints out 1. I don t understand how max(a,key=lambda w: b[w]) is being evaluated ...

This line works correctly in a small test program, but in the program for which I want it, I get the following compiler complaints: #include <limits> x = std::numeric_limits<int>::max(); ...

For some reason this code is printing three values for the highest value in the array when I m trying to print just one (which is 11.3). Can someone please explain to me why it is doing this? Thanks. ...

VB.NET has this rather annoying limitation which caps compiler warnings reported at 100. vbc : warning BC42206: Maximum number of warnings has been exceeded. This makes things rather frustrating ...

I have two tables USER (one row per user) id,username,firstname,lastname,lastmodified 1,johns, John,Smith, 2009-03-01 2,andrews, Andrew,Stiller, 2009-03-03 STUDIES (multiple rows per user) id,...

Is it possible to use a select statement so that it returns Max and min columns of a child row foreach Parent record? So foreach parent record that has MANY child records I want to see the Max and ...