Re: [HLP] Meaning of 'inf' ???

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From: ts
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 00:00

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>>>>> "L" == Laurent MARTIN <laurent@gide.net> writes:

L> my $s1="information";
L> my $s2="dummy";
L> printf("[%d]:%s\n",$s1,(($s1>=1000) ? "true" : "false"));
L> printf("[%d]:%s\n",$s2,(($s2>=1000) ? "true" : "false"));

 C'est un cas connu, regardez (� tout hasard :-)) les sp�cifications de
 IEEE-754  

moulon% perl
my $s1="-information";
my $s2="dummy";
printf("[%d]:%s\n",$s1,(($s1>=1000) ? "true" : "false"));
printf("[%d]:%s\n",$s2,(($s2>=1000) ? "true" : "false"));
^D
[-2147483648]:false
[0]:false
moulon% 

-- 

Guy Decoux

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