From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2012-02-04T12:02:09+09:00
Subject: Re: 4 random numbers take highest 3 and add them together.

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:43 AM, h4y4shi 13bladex
<serpentinexcubed@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to get 4 random numbers. The numbers will be between 1-6. I want
> to disregard the smallest number and add the three biggest numbers
> together. So far I wrote some ruby that I thought would do this but I
> keep getting an error.
>

If you don't like inject, this is even shorter and easier to understand.
It's not very flexible but.....
If you always have 4 numbers and always want to add the largest 3 numbers,

r = [2,4,1,5]
p r[0]+r[1]+r[2]+r[3]-r.min



Harry