Re: Brain Teaser

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Eh, perhaps on *your* system, but look at this:

    $ perl -le 'print \\///\\\//'
    1.00000026558336981
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What the result of \\///\\\// is depends on how memory is alloced. It'll depend on your malloc (which could be the Perl supplied, or the system one, depending on how Perl was build); it'll hand out addresses using some algorithm, based on various factors. Don't assume that when you run it once on your system, it will be the same universally.

-- Abigail

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Re: Re: Brain Teaser by srawls (Friar) on Jun 10, 2001 at 20:36 UTC
Well, I ran it on DOS and UNIX, and it worked. I was hoping that since the memory was allocated closely it would be below 1; oh well--nothing can be 100% portable : ) The 15 year old, freshman programmer, Stephen Rawls	[reply]
Re: Brain Teaser by Abigail (Deacon) on Jun 10, 2001 at 22:36 UTC
One Unix isn't the other of course. The output I gave was run under a Unix as well. `;-)` -- Abigail	[reply]

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