Re: odd printf results
- Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at CNW.COM> Mar 08, 2000
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:43:16 -0000, John McAdam wrote: >printf(filenum,"value %d\n",buffer[x]) > >produced this line in the file: > >value inf > >or sometimes: > >value nan > >I suppose they mean "too big" and "too small" respectively. >Just a little suprise. I expected a number since I had specified >an integer (%d), not a string. Maybe its in the documentation >and I didn't see it. inf = infinity nan = not a number Discussion on these values can be found in section 2.2.3 "Arithmetic Operators" -- Brian