it's a comparison issue, I think paul sited a link for the two.
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From: Lori Nagel
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [c-prog] plz solve
I ran it on my computer (Linux, gcc compiler pentium 4) and I got
how are u
apparently in my case double and float is not the same thing.
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From: Paul Herring <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 10:25:47 AM
Subject: Re: [c-prog] plz solve
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Uday Oberio <uday_oberio@ yahoo.co. in>
wrote:
> float a=1.1;
> double b=1.1;
> if(a==b)
> printf("hello" );
> else
> printf("how are u ");
>
> now tell me which part will be executed
Either one may be executed.
> and why ?
Because you cannot compare floats for exactness like you're trying to do.
Have a read of <http://docs. sun.com/source/ 806-3568/ ncg_goldberg. html>
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