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From: chen-dahe@CS.Yale.EDU (Dahe Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Thanks.
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Date: 27 Jan 89 18:53:39 GMT
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Two days ago I posted a question about casting. Thank everyone and all
who responded. The following is what I found on my machine (VAX 3500
Ultrix V2.3):

Use the scientific notation, i.e. A = a0.a1...an E p0...pm.

(int)A casts to its integral part correctly only when n is less
than 16. So does function floor.

This result is based on code like

if( (int)A <= (int)B ) {
    statement1 ;
} else {
    statement2 ;
}


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