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CBSE Class 11 Informatics Practices Question 56 of 80

Lists in Python — Question 19

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Question 14

Write a program to find the largest and the second largest elements in a given list of elements.

Solution
nums = eval(input("Enter the list: "))

first = nums[0]
second = nums[0]

for num in nums[2:]:
    if num > first:
        second = first  
        first = num     
    elif num > second and num != first:
        second = num   

print("Largest element:", first)
print("Second largest element:", second)
Output
Enter the list: [2, 8, 10, 18, 15, 6]
Largest element: 18
Second largest element: 15
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