Question: I am trying to perform the following code:

```
function oldestAges(ages){
    if (ages == []){
      return [0,0]; 
    }else{
      var max = Math.max.apply(null, ages); 
              ages.splice(ages.indexOf(max), 1); 
      var max2 = Math.max.apply(null, ages); 
      return [max2,max];
  }
}

```

However, when testing [] as ages, the expected was '[0, 0]', instead got: '[-Infinity, -Infinity]'

Also, is there a much easier way to accomplish the same task? I ask because using R I could get the same result in much less number of lines. I am noob in javascript still.

Answer: 
A simple (not sure about the most optimal) way to achieve this:

```js
const input = [5, 150, 2, 8, 58, 4];

const result = input.sort((x, y) => y - x).slice(0, 2);

console.log(result);
```
You can sort your array in descending order so that the first two elements contain the highest values.

```
ages.sort((a, b) => b - a);

```

Now `ages[0]` and `ages[1]` contain the two biggest numbers.