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Re: what is the output

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On 7/3/2011 9:19 PM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> vinay kumar<vinay5b9@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> main()
>> {
>> int d=010;
>> printf("%d",d);
>> }
>>
>> Re: what is the output
>
> 8
>
>> please give with explanation
>
> You can't take 3 from 2, 2 is less than 3,
> so you look at the 4 in the eight's place.
> Now that's really four 8's, so you make
> it three 8's, change an 8 to 8 ones and
> add them to the 2 and that gives 1 2 base 8
> which is ten base ten and you take away 3 that's 7.
>
> Now instead of 4 in the 8's place, you've got 3
> 'cause you added 1 (that is to say, 8) to the 2,
> but you can't take 7 from 3, so you look at the 64's.

     "Sixty-four?  How did sixty-four get into this?" I hear you
cry.  Well, sixty-four is eight squared, don't you see?  "Ask a
silly question ..."

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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what is the output vinay kumar <vinay5b9@gmail.com> - 2011-07-03 09:32 -0700
  Re: what is the output "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> - 2011-07-03 19:43 +0200
  Re: what is the output Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-07-03 13:47 -0400
    Re: what is the output Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-07-03 12:15 -0700
    Re: what is the output Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-07-03 13:55 -0700
      Re: what is the output "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2011-07-03 16:20 -0500
      Re: what is the output Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-07-03 14:24 -0700
        Re: what is the output Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-07-03 16:13 -0700
          Re: what is the output "Morris Keesan" <mkeesan@post.harvard.edu> - 2011-07-03 21:10 -0400
          Re: what is the output Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-07-04 14:22 -0700
          Re: what is the output Todd Carnes <toddcarnes@gmail.com> - 2011-07-05 03:30 +0000
      Re: what is the output John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-07-05 02:26 +0000
    Re: what is the output Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-03 18:30 -0700
      Re: what is the output Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-07-03 21:58 -0400
        Re: what is the output Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-04 17:10 -0700
          Re: what is the output Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-07-04 21:42 -0400
            Re: what is the output Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2011-07-04 22:51 -0400
            Re: what is the output Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-06 16:23 -0700
    Re: what is the output Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-07-03 21:23 -0700
  Re: what is the output Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-07-03 14:06 -0600
  Re: what is the output Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-03 18:19 -0700
    Re: what is the output Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-07-03 22:12 -0400
      Re: what is the output Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-07-03 21:16 -0600
    Re: what is the output Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-07-04 13:59 -0700
      Re: what is the output Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-04 17:15 -0700
  Re: what is the output Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl@earthlink.net> - 2011-07-04 17:21 -0400
    Re: what is the output Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-04 17:27 -0700
      Re: what is the output Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-07-04 18:07 -0700
        Re: what is the output Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-06 17:08 -0700
    Re: what is the output "Morris Keesan" <mkeesan@post.harvard.edu> - 2011-07-04 22:19 -0400
      Re: what is the output Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-07-04 23:19 -0400
        Re: what is the output Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-07-05 08:34 -0700
  Re: what is the output Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2011-07-04 18:26 -0400
    Re: what is the output Todd Carnes <toddcarnes@gmail.com> - 2011-07-05 03:36 +0000

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