Array indexing vs. pointers...

Norman Diamond diamond at csl.sony.JUNET
Thu Oct 6 11:39:54 AEST 1988


In article <10332 at s.ms.uky.edu>, aash at ms.uky.edu ( Aashi Deacon ) writes:
->    o	Try very hard to replace divides with other operations, as in:
->		x / 10
->	with:
->		x * .1
>
> ... '.1' cannot be represented exactly as a floating
> point number because in base2 it is irrational.  Wouldn't then the
> first be better in this case?

In C, efficiency is more important than correctness.  Haven't you also
been following the other disputes in this news group?
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