great news for all members and your friends. MyParty Worm which infected some members machines was date bound. and so if any body receives the mails from tomorrow i.e 1st Feb 2002 onwards, the worm will not do any harm. Also it has been detected that it originated from Russia, as if the keyboard is set to Cyrillic font (Russian keyboard style) the worm autodestroys itself.
Kapil Sethi System Administrator BharatConnect Ltd. Ph: 011-6430987 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandip Bhattacharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd]: Trivial C problem (Updated) > What I find interesting is: > 1. The printf function is giving a supposedly higher precision in the > mantissa than the iostream cout. > 2. I tried with different numbers and the difference between the the > original number and the number > output using printf is equal to some power of 2 minus one. > > - Sandip > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ambar Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 7:07 PM > Subject: Re: [ilugd]: Trivial C problem (Updated) > > > > > This explains your second output. However, I am at a loss at the first > > output. > > > While I cant explain that, the fact that the difference is near a power > of > > > 2 suggests that it has got something similar to do with the storage of > the > > > mantissa again. > > essentially u r guranteed a precesion of 6 digits... anything after the 6 > > digits is dependent on the number and the storage method used to store the > > floating point number... In fact the first output just happened to be so > > close to the original number. It cud hav been anything.. this is just pure > > luck ;) The mantissa is stored as a floating point number in base 2, and > > this is one of the strange effects of that reason. In fact i remember that > > with ms gwbasic, u cud not store some simple numbers as floating point > > numbers. > > > > Bye, > > /\ |\/| |3 /\ r > > > > ================================================ > > To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in > subject header > > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in > subject header > > Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > ================================================= > > > > ================================================ > To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header > Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > ================================================= > ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
