Write a short straightline piece of pseudo-code

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Suppose Alice has picked three distinct integers and placed them into a stack S in random order. Write a short, straightline piece of pseudo-code (with no loops or recursion) that uses only one comparison and only one variable x, yet guarantees with probability 2/3 that at the end of this code the variable x will store the largest of Alice's three integers. Argue why your method is correct.

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