C Floating point arithmetic

[Joseph S. D. Yao]

In article <706 at lasspvax.UUCP> garry%geology at cu-arpa.cornell.edu.arpa writes:
>Pet peeve:
>In an inauspicious moment, K&R specified "All floating-point arithmetic
>in C is done in double precision" (pg 41).

This is unsaid in ANSI C, as mentioned in the middle of an earlier
(long!) article.  Floats may be themselves even in the midst of
arithmetic ops and function passing.  May cause problems in loosely
written programs.

"Say what you mean ... is the whole of the law."
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