Christopher Jeris
cjeris at fas.harvard.edu
Thu Jul 19 13:37:24 CDT 2007
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark A Matte wrote: > ttt = CDec(36 * 36 * 36) 6^6 = 46656 overflows a 16-bit signed integer. Now we can all line up and kick someone in the head for leaving a 16-bit signed integer type in a program written after 1995. Try ttt = CDec(36) * CDec(36) * CDec(36) Also, be careful! > tt = CDec(36 ^ 10) That ^ is the _floating_point_ exponentiation operator! The result is not the integer 6^20; if you look at tt, you will see that it ends in a 0, which no power of 6 does. What you get there is the decimal conversion of the floating-point exponentiation. peace, Chris Jeris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGn69k5ICCNV0oGWARAjPHAJ9dz3+coNp2KVcjqwRK0FtFVFj9bACfW+oY JR0dThbFLOYR8UefedT5X48= =KxwX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----