Search for third place by max?

Question

MATLAB

Let's say we have a vector like this:

A = [ 3 5 6 7 ]
second_max_value = max(A(A~=max(A)))

Finds the maximum and the second place, but how to find the 3rd place?

Answer 1

B=Sort(A);
B(3)

Answer 2

B = maxk(A,3)
See https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/maxk.html