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Subject: Re: condition true or false? ->  (-1 < sizeof("test"))
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 22 May 2012 17:25:17 +0100, BartC wrote:
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message

>>> The answer is to have + and -
>>> closed. What about *? That would make it x2 bits wider. What about
>>> exponentiation? Much more bits. Factorial?
>>
>> We're talking about C where operations and their results usually have the
>> same predefined width.
>
> Irrelevant. The concept either works or does not. In this case it does 
> not.

That's fine. But in that case, every calculator or computer ever made is 
useless, because you can always think up some calculation just beyond it's 
capacity.

-- 
Bartc