On 19 January 2011 16:30, Christopher Schultz
wrote:
> [Peter]
>> I'm actually interested to know your environment for your
>> precision.c code, as a single-precision (32-bit) float is only good for 6-7
>> significant figures and your answers agree to 11sf.
... and I'm cross-eyed and can't count
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André,
On 1/19/2011 6:52 AM, André Warnier wrote:
> #include
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
>
> int thousand = 1000;
> int sixty = 60;
> int twentyfour = 24;
> int hundred = 100;
> int three = 3;
>
> int cacheTime1 = (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24
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Peter,
On 1/19/2011 6:09 AM, Peter Crowther wrote:
> On 19 January 2011 03:10, Christopher Schultz
> wrote:
>
>> Yup: float is the default decimal type. Double-precision takes longer,
>> so you have to ask for it.
>
> Chris, that's the only comment i
On 19 January 2011 15:53, Caldarale, Charles R
wrote:
> No, most hardware (e.g., all flavors of x86) just sets a flag indicating that
> an overflow has occurred; it's up to the executing program to check the flag.
And on some machines (again, x86 springs to mind) it's easier to check
some flags
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Chuck,
On 1/18/2011 9:47 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
> However, I suspect that Objective-C still follows the C standards for
> expressions.
Objective-C /must/ follow the C standards: it is a strict superset of C.
Early Objective-C compilers were
> -Original Message-
> From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:54 AM
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> Subject: RE: [OT] Setting HTTP response headers caching for 1 year
> doesn't work
>
> > From: Jef
> From: Jeffrey Janner [mailto:jeffrey.jan...@polydyne.com]
> Subject: RE: [OT] Setting HTTP response headers caching for 1 year doesn't
> work
> My hardware internals knowledge is just as rusty as my coding
> skills, but doesn't the hardware catch the overflow and rai
> -Original Message-
> From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com]
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> Subject: RE: [OT] Setting HTTP response headers caching for 1 year
> doesn't work
>
> > From: Je
> From: Jeffrey Janner [mailto:jeffrey.jan...@polydyne.com]
> Subject: RE: [OT] Setting HTTP response headers caching for 1 year doesn't
> work
> Does the Java compiler do this? One would think so, but judging
> from the results you guys are displaying, it seems not
> -Original Message-
> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: [OT] Setting HTTP response headers caching for 1 year
> doesn't work
>
> Christopher Schultz wrote:
>
Peter Crowther wrote:
On 19 January 2011 08:34, André Warnier wrote:
Well, they haven't made a language yet which can divide acres by feet and
coerce the result into furlongs.
Google "20 acres / 22 feet in furlongs" and prepare for a surprise ;-).
I /am/ impressed.
On the other hand, it
Christopher Schultz wrote:
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André,
(You always make me write so much code!)
I don't /make/ you write code, I just provide the inspiration.
I'm quite good at that, when I don't have to do the work myself.
Thanks for writing the code in question thou
On 19 January 2011 08:34, André Warnier wrote:
> Well, they haven't made a language yet which can divide acres by feet and
> coerce the result into furlongs.
>
Google "20 acres / 22 feet in furlongs" and prepare for a surprise ;-).
- Peter
On 19 January 2011 03:10, Christopher Schultz
wrote:
> Yup: float is the default decimal type. Double-precision takes longer,
> so you have to ask for it.
>
Chris, that's the only comment in your post I'd take issue with. To my
knowledge, a constant with a fractional part is assumed to be double
Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
(No wonder after that, that lunar probes go CFIT.)
Nah, it's that damn metric system (think Gimli Glider).
Well, they haven't made a language yet which can divide acres by feet and coerce the
result into furlongs.
And thanks for the Gimli Glider story, I did no
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André,
(You always make me write so much code!)
On 1/18/2011 7:12 PM, André Warnier wrote:
> Christopher Schultz wrote:
>> There's nothing magical about the first operand: you can cast any of the
>> operands to trigger this promotion.
>
> Not quite
> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
> Subject: Re: [OT] Setting HTTP response headers caching for 1 year doesn't
> work
> What kind of stupid compiler is this, which requires me to say
> double d = 1.0 / 2;
> to get a correct result ?
One that abides by th
Christopher Schultz wrote:
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André,
On 1/16/2011 8:41 AM, André Warnier wrote:
Ran Berenfeld wrote:
well ...no... first evaluate, then assign. and constants are int by
default.
I think C/C++ would have the same problem...
Maybe.
FYI they do.
B
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André,
On 1/16/2011 8:41 AM, André Warnier wrote:
> Ran Berenfeld wrote:
>> well ...no... first evaluate, then assign. and constants are int by
>> default.
>> I think C/C++ would have the same problem...
>>
> Maybe.
FYI they do.
> But then why does
> From: Len Popp [mailto:len.p...@gmail.com]
> Subject: Re: [OT] Setting HTTP response headers caching for 1 year doesn't
> work
> > I suppose that there must be some implacable logic in the way it's done now,
> > other than the evil intention to fool the
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:41, André Warnier wrote:
> Ran Berenfeld wrote:
>>
>> well ...no... first evaluate, then assign. and constants are int by
>> default.
>> I think C/C++ would have the same problem...
>>
> Maybe. But then why does the fact of specifying just the first right-hand
> side co
Ran Berenfeld wrote:
well ...no... first evaluate, then assign. and constants are int by default.
I think C/C++ would have the same problem...
Maybe. But then why does the fact of specifying just the first right-hand side constant
in the calculation as a long, magically change the whole result
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