1 Sep
2020
1 Sep
'20
4:58 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 01:07:42PM -0700, scott andrew franco wrote:
samiam@samiam-home-pc:~/projects/pascal/pascal-p5$ cat test.pas program test(output); var b,c: real; begin b := maxint; c := 10.0; b := b+c; writeln(b:40:1); writeln(maxint:38); end. samiam@samiam-home-pc:~/projects/pascal/pascal-p5$ gpc -o test test.pas samiam@samiam-home-pc:~/projects/pascal/pascal-p5$ ./test 9223372036854775808.0 9223372036854775807
Note that floating point results are approximate and on 64-bit machines real accuracy is lower than integer accuracy.
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Waldek Hebisch