Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:46:49 -0500 From: Pete Becker Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:46:49 -0400 Message-ID: <2011062114464963905-pete@versatilecodingcom> References: <589f8b74-d065-44a5-ab9e-81e6a6fcd88b@v12g2000vby.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: (simple?) problem with multiplication User-Agent: Unison/2.1.4 Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-6duWr30S83V8+JINs5mKVrgLD5JL+nSvQk6nWYnvol1PTepHpQH8ekMag2xrZ/JA8fjq3juq19ULo0U!L9LVsIBkhcyyZIW5pzinSfBlMI65kaNz8Ulv8MNJJdBMM2vn7n51jtjqbpgqUP7OFebJqHaC X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1555 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:7031 On 2011-06-21 14:35:43 -0400, Balog Pal said: > "Ttodir" >> no types larger than int can be used. > > why? Because it's a homework problem, with artificial constraints to force students to think. -- Pete Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference (www.petebecker.com/tr1book)