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From: kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A define problem
Keywords: define
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.194303.20991@demott.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 19:43:03 GMT
References: <440@bally.Bally.COM> <1991Jan8.012923.3390@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <4613@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US>
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In article <4613@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> jak@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Jay A. Konigsberg) writes:
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>Look at what is being passed to "half()".
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>i=5
>half(i-5) or half(5-5) or half(0)
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>which becomes: (0)/2 - which is 0.
>
>It looks like it should be:
>
>printf( "i/2 = %d\n",half(i));
>
>which produces 2, not 3 anyway. If you want to round up, you should
>define the variables as a float, add .5 and cast to (int).


    or half(i+1)


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