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/*
* Find Second Largest is a real technical interview question.
* Chances are you will be asked to find the second largest value
* inside of an array of numbers. You must also be able to filter
* out duplicate values.  It's important to know how to do this with
* clean code that is also easy to explain.
*
* Resources:
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Set
*/

const secondLargestElement = (array) => {
  const largestElement = Math.max(...array)
  let element = -Number.MAX_VALUE

  for (let i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
    if (element < array[i] && array[i] !== largestElement) {
      element = array[i]
    }
  }

  return element
}

export { secondLargestElement }