A Misunderstanding About Logical Operators

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While doing an assignment today, I ran into this problem:

Write a program that accepts three integers and outputs the largest one.

I wrote:

`#include <stdio.h>

int main(){ int a,b,; scanf(“%d %d %d”,&a,&b,&c); if(a>b>c||a>c>b){ printf(“max=%d”,a); } if(b>a>c||b>c>a){ printf(“max=%d”,b); } if(c>a>b||c>b>a){ printf(“max=%d”,c); } }`

But this was the result:

I had misunderstood how logical operators work.

In fact, a > b > c does not compare all three values at once. It is evaluated according to operator precedence and associativity: first, a > b is evaluated and produces a Boolean result (0 or 1), then that result is compared with c.