Re: div bug
Re: div bug
- Subject: Re: div bug
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:00:10 -0600
At 07:45 -0700 8/4/09, Philip Aker wrote:
>At first glance it might seem that the C conventions are gonna work like folks with our "as learned in school" math heritage think they should. But they don't
I have always wondered about that "learned in school" bit. I was certainly introduced to FORTRAN while still in school. (Well, I guess that was graduate school but FORTRAN was new.) Aren't students introduced to C or Pascal these days? Just what are all those K-12 computers used for?
But then I was certainly taught that -X**2 was negative.
And certainly dividing 101.99999999995 by 1 in fourth grade would result in the sentence
"One oh one with a remainder of .99999999995"
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--> There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't <--
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