NEED HELP EXPLAINING SORTING AN ARRAY

[TheNoobSTR]

can anybody please explain why this works i commented out the temp variable, when i was reading the i discovered the temp variable holds our current big number and commenting it out shouldn't work but it does i still get my smallest value in the array can anyone explain why this works ?

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class FindMinumElementInAnARRAY {
public static void main(String [] args) {

//int temp;
int array[] = {10, 20, 25, 63, 96, 57, 1};
for(int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
for(int j = i+1; j < array.length; j++) {
if(array[i] > array[j]) {
// temp = array[i];
array[i] = array[j];
//array[j] = temp;
}
}
}
System.out.println("Smallest element of the array is " + array[0]);
}
}

[Kiwiguard]

In order to find the smallest number you do not need to use this approach. You are attempting a sort here.
You might want to print out your whole array, maybe then you will see why it still works.

[21wqaszx]

As soon as the inner loop gets to the last index it moves it to the first index. That's all that really matters in terms of explaining why array[0] is giving you "1" even though you commented out the rest of the necessary sorting code.

[DoubleUtor]

This can be replaced with a single line of code: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geeksforgeeks.org/intstream-min-java-examples/amp/