Does the demotion logic still apply to minimums?
Yes. When a new absolute minimum is found, the previous minimum is 'demoted' to the second minimum position.
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The structural logic is identical. The only differences are initializing variables to very large numbers instead of very small ones, and checking for < instead of >.
If you initialize 'min' to 0 and the array contains only positive numbers, the condition (current < min) will never trigger, and 0 will incorrectly be returned.
In Java, use Integer.MAX_VALUE. In C++, use INT_MAX from the <climits> library. In Python, use float('inf').
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