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From: jcbst3@cisunx.UUCP (James C. Benz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: value of TRUE???
Keywords: TRUE, if(), another nonzero value
Message-ID: <16594@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 89 14:39:50 GMT
References: <18427@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <18427@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
>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.

OOPS!  How'd that get in there?  Meant to say "a", not "3" - just another
example of brain-damage from too much sillycon in my diet.  Got to stop
eating so many chips.


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