// Author:  Keith Shomper
// Date:    9/26/03
// Purose;  To demonstrate the for loop by finding the largest of a group of
//          numbers

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main() {
	int   howMany;
	float num, largest;

	// prompt the user for the amount of numbers to compare
	cout << "How many numbers do you want to compare?  ";
	cin  >> howMany;

	// Note the "I", "T" and "M" of ITEM all happen in the next line 
	for (int i = 1; i <= howMany; ++i ) { 

		// get the nth number
		// ** NOTE ** can yo make this prompting code better, so that it handles
		// more cases???
		cout << "Please enter the " <<  i;
		switch (i) {
			case 1:  cout << "st";
				break;
			case 2:  cout << "nd";
				break;
			case 3:  cout << "rd";
				break;
			default: cout << "th";
		}
		cout << " number:  ";
		cin  >> num;

		// find the largest number we've seen so far
		if (i == 1) largest = num;
		else if (num > largest) largest = num;
	}

	// report the largest number seen
	cout << "The largest number you gave is " << largest << endl;

	return 0;
}