👉 In computer science, a "hightop" is an operation on two operands that returns either the highest or the lowest value of the two. This concept is often used in algorithms and programming to find the minimum or maximum possible output for a given input. For example, in the binary search algorithm, the "hightop" comparison can be used to determine the midpoint between two values during the search process, where the greater value is considered as the highest (or lowest) element.
