Hijacked: What's my number?

[keshav_agrawal]

ok.. anybody here to answer dis one...

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
float a = 0.7

if(0.7 > a )
  printf("HELLO");
else
  printf("BEllo");
}

and d output is HELLO......!!!!!!!!!!?????????????

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
float a = 0.8

if(0.8 > a )
  printf("HELLO");
else
  printf("BEllo");
}

d output is BEllo...........!!!!!!!!!?????????????

any reason..?

i executed dese two programs on TURBO C++4.5

[Soulzityr]

the output fr the 0.7 one should be "bello" too

[nadroj]

and d output is HELLO......!!!!!!!!!!?????????????

d output is BEllo...........!!!!!!!!!?????????????

False. There is no output for either of them. Both programs dont compile because its not syntactically correct. So how could you possibly know the output?

ok.. anybody here to answer dis one...

i executed dese two programs on TURBO C++4.5

If you want people to take you seriously, stop making up words.

Anyway, try to cast the numbers to their respective type when doing the comparison and you should get the correct output, like

if ( (float) 0.42 < foo)

As for the actual topic of the thread, as others have said, and I fully agree on and recommend learning, the most useful math in computer science and "programming" would be discrete math.

[Salem]

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[Salem]

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

> if(0.7 > a )
0.7 is a double constant
a is a float
BOTH are an approximation of the true value of 0.7

In detail, you might find that the double is 0.699999999998, whereas the float is only 0.99999998.
Neither are actually EQUAL to 0.7, the double just happens to be a little bit closer (and thus a very little bit bigger).

Floating Point

[sganesh]

Float is a single precision number. But double has double precision.
And it has difference in storage format.
float has 4 bytes but double has 8 bytes.

Try to differentiate with the printf itself.

printf("Double (0.7):%0.12f\n",0.7);
printf("Float  (0.7):%0.6f\n",0.7);
printf("Double (0.8):%0.12f\n",0.8);
printf("Double (0.8):%0.6f\n",0.8);

And for me that I could see the difference in 0.17f that may be different in other OS. ( I am using Linux ).
And It takes the approximate number to check that values in the condition.

if you used constants while assigning the values it is good always, because it can solve many problems like this.

float a = 0.7f;

or you can use this constant while checking the condition.

if(0.7f > a )
  printf("HELLO\n");
else
  printf("BEllo\n");