Re: An arithmetic puzzle, equality of numbers.
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- Subject: [mg103087] Re: An arithmetic puzzle, equality of numbers.
- From: a boy <a.dozy.boy at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:54:23 -0400 (EDT)
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At the begin of programming, my teacher told me---- when i is greater than maximum value , its value is negative. This comes to c/c++/java programming also. On Sep 7, 2:36 pm, Richard Fateman <fate... at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > For[i = 1.11111111111111111111, i > 0, Print[i = 2*i - i]] > > This came to my attention (again), and I thought it might amuse > current readers of this newsgroup. > > What looks like an infinite loop terminates with i==0 being true. also > i==2 is true. (Tested in Mathematica 6.0; I don't have access to 7 yet.)