A use for integer quotients

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Mon Jul 23 15:47:04 EDT 2001


In article <3B5C749A.59F97320 at tundraware.com>,
 Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:

> Not formally, AFAIK.  For example, 3 with no decimal point following
> could be anything from 2.5 to 3.4.

No no no.  '3.' i.e. a floating point number with that value could be 
anything in that range.  '3' means exactly the integer 3, no approximation 
at all.
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/



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