For unsigned integer types, you just keep cycling through the range of numbers forever. For signed integer types, the behaviour is implementation defined. Why would you want to have a case where "the sum is never ending" anyway?Originally Posted by errigour
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Perhaps he/she is talking about fractions and irrational numbers etc. I.e. anything where the decimal representation is infinite.
The answer then is that a double essentially stores values in scientific notation. It has a certain number of significant figures. The result is therefore only an approximation. There's more to it than that, if you feel up to reading "What every computer scientist should know about floating point."
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Hey is this valid
Code:if (mouse_x >< mouse_y)
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What would that imply if it were valid? (It is not.)
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mouse_x is greater then or less then mouse_y.
It's spelled !=, for not-equal.
