c programming?

Question

given two numbers.how can you find the biggest of the two,without using conditional statements,relational operarors or ternary operators

Answer 1

The mathematical formula is:
max(a,b)= (a + b + |a-b|)/2

in C:

long max(long a, long b){
return (a +b + abs(a-b))/2;
}

Answer 2

double big, firstnumber,secondnumber;

big=max(firstnumber,secondnumber);