Re: A question about how to enter a very long number.

CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Keith Thompson wrote:
CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Mark McIntyre wrote:

... snip ...

What is the largest number you can hold in an int?

INT_MAX, as read from <limits.h>.

By snipping most of Mark's message, you give the impression that
he's not already perfectly well aware of that. His intent, I
think was to encourage the OP to think about these questions, not
to solicit answers to be posted here.

Not so. By snipping I reduced the question/answer to a minimum
that could impress a relatively newbie reader.

I don't understand. Whom are you trying to impress? And what does
that have to do with the original poster's question (which isn't
quoted here, but was quoted in the article to which you replied)?

Usenet is not a
home for private messages. Everything is public.

Certainly, but answers to questions are typically addressed to the
questioner, with others able to read the answer so that they can
either learn from it, correct it, or add to it. In this case, the
questioner was the original poster; Mark, quite reasonably, answered
by posing questions intended to lead the OP to figure things out for
himself.

If you happen to be walking by a classroom when the teacher is asking
the students "What is two plus three?", do you stick your head in the
door and shout "five"?

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