OpenEuphoria

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