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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  C Floating point arithmetic
Message-ID: <4647@alice.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 11:53:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 11:53:42 1985
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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>	float a,b;
>
>	a = b + 1.0;	/* Gets done in double because 1.0 is a double.
>			Gag me with a spoon. */

Nah, gets done in single because the compiler realizes that 1.0 has
the same representation in single and double, and therefore that
the result of the addition will be the same.