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From: aash@ms.uky.edu ( Aashi Deacon )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Array indexing vs. pointers...
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Date: 4 Oct 88 00:42:59 GMT
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>    o	Try very hard to replace divides with other operations, as in:
>		x / 10
>	with:
>		x * .1
>    o	See if some calculations can be done using integer math.

Are these two points contradictory?
Thanks for those good hints but I got stopped when I saw this first point.

According to theory, '.1' cannot be represented exactly as a floating
point number because in base2 it is irrational.  Wouldn't then the
first be better in this case?

aash
aash@ms.uky.edu