My first thought was some kind of sorting combinator; select minimum/maximum (non-zero) input. Lots of interesting possibilities. If it was a sensor would it require a separate input and output side? Filter would be very useful though, every time I create one of those filter circuits that starts by adding a billion to everything I want to keep it feels very wrong.
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