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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MSC C arithmetic
Message-ID: <7989@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 17:05:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.7989
Posted: Sun Aug 16 17:05:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 23:15:56 EDT
References: <8792@brl-adm.ARPA> <7976@mimsy.UUCP> <7178@alice.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <7976@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote:
>> The second result is not so defensible; the 16.0 should modify the
>> entire operation so that it is done in double.

In article <7178@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP writes:
>Nope.  This example should be parsed as
>
>	total_bits = (((repeat_cnt * units) * blksiz) * 16.0);

ark is right (as usual); I was at home, working without a K&R.  I
had originally hedged on this, then took out the hedging.  Sorry
about that.

(And this posting was delayed two days by hardware problems ... sigh.)
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