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From: diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Array indexing vs. pointers...
Message-ID: <10029@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET>
Date: 6 Oct 88 01:39:54 GMT
References: <836@proxftl.UUCP> <3105@hubcap.UUCP> <1700@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <10332@s.ms.uky.edu>
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In article <10332@s.ms.uky.edu>, aash@ms.uky.edu ( Aashi Deacon ) writes:
->    o	Try very hard to replace divides with other operations, as in:
->		x / 10
->	with:
->		x * .1
>
> ... '.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?

In C, efficiency is more important than correctness.  Haven't you also
been following the other disputes in this news group?
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