No, extendeds promote to float on mixed operations.
Henry Rich
On 2/2/2016 9:09 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming wrote:
9223372036854736345 <. _
9.22337e18
result is a double. <. double is the closest integer it can find.
this seems like a problem though:
9223372036854736345x <. _
9.22337e18
----- Original Message -----
From: Henry Rich <[email protected]>
To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 9:05 PM
Subject: [Jprogramming] When a <. _ is less than a
I'm stepping up to the world of 64-bit integers, and stepping into cowflops.
This took me quite a while:
<. 9223372036854736345 <. _
9223372036854735872
See that? Take the minimum of (number) and (infinity), and the result
is less than (number)!
Yes, I understand why it happens. Now I do. Be warned.
Henry Rich
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