Re: Interesting code

Dik T. Winter skrev:
In article <Si19h.24031$E02.9405@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> August Karlstrom <fusionfive@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> Mathematics Pascal/Modula/Oberon C
> x = y x equals y x equals y x becomes y
> 1/2 0.5 0.5 0

The second line is incorrect for Mathematics if you are not working in
the reals.

Well, it's just as valid for the rational numbers (Q is a field).

In the ring of integers, division is not defined for every number (not every integer has a multiplicative inverse).


August

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"Programming languages like C make people really believe that one half equals zero." -- A. Karlstrom
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