Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: value of TRUE??? Keywords: TRUE, if(), another nonzero value Message-ID: <18427@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 10 Mar 89 04:17:41 GMT Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Distribution: usa Organization: malkaryotic Lines: 7 jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (James C. Benz) <16575@cisunx.UUCP> : - -if (a=3) will evaluate to true, since the value of (a=3) is 3, a non-zero value -Now, if you had said, if (a == 3), it is highly dependent on the value of 3. How TRUE, how TRUE.... I once knew a mathematician (okay, a statistician) who was quite disturbed by the limit of "pi/2" for small values of 2.