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Programming Help needed (simple)

Atreides · 2003-11-16 14:58:04

I have to write a program that will: 1) Recieve input (numbers) from an input text file 2) Re-display input on screen. 3) show the number of inputs (numbers). 4) Stop inputing numbers when it reachs number -1. 5) Get the average of all numbers. 6) Redirect out to an output file. Location of the input and out put files must…

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#32 05-12-2003 4:46pm
Atreides

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Interesting, Suppose a double would have worked. Thank you.

Found out why time^2 didn't work, apparently that function is not in std

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#33 05-12-2003 5:22pm
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Originally posted by Skanger
Interesting, Suppose a double would have worked. Thank you.

Found out why time^2 didn't work, apparently that function is not in std

A double still won't be guaranteed work. A double is just a float with higher precision and you still have the number representation problem with 0.1

time ^ 2 does work, it just doesn't do what you expect. ^ is a bitwise exclusive or

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