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By sebi, 15 years ago, In English

Suppose you have two variables x and y and you want to swap their values. The usual way to do this is using another temporary variable:

     temp = x;
     x = y;
     y = temp;

However, the interchange of two variables can be done without the temp variable:

     x = x + y;
     y = x - y;
     x = x - y;


What is your favourite algorithm for swapping variables?

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