Re: Re: Brain Teaser

Tricky Abigail, but I meant what does \\///\\\// evaluate to (not print)--mabey I should have explained myself better. And again, that was a slip, I meant to say that it evaluates to 0 in integer context, in numeric context it evaluates to just under 1.

The 15 year old, freshman programmer,
Stephen Rawls

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Re: Brain Teaser by Abigail (Deacon) on Jun 11, 2001 at 00:32 UTC
Eh, perhaps on your system, but look at this: `$ perl -le 'print \\///\\\//' 1.00000026558336981` [download] What the result of `\\///\\\//` is depends on how memory is alloced. It'll depend on your `malloc` (which could be the Perl supplied, or the system one, depending on how Perl was build); it'll hand out addresses using some algorithm, based on various factors. Don't assume that when you run it once on your system, it will be the same universally. -- Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Brain Teaser by srawls (Friar) on Jun 11, 2001 at 00:36 UTC
Well, I ran it on DOS and UNIX, and it worked. I was hoping that since the memory was allocated closely it would be below 1; oh well--nothing can be 100% portable : ) The 15 year old, freshman programmer, Stephen Rawls	[reply]
Re: Brain Teaser by Abigail (Deacon) on Jun 11, 2001 at 02:36 UTC
One Unix isn't the other of course. The output I gave was run under a Unix as well. `;-)` -- Abigail	[reply]


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