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Subject: Re: INFINIITY question

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 11:08:12 11/29/01

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>When I call search(), I'm supposed to be using -INFINITY as alpha and INFINITY
>as beta.  Anyway, I've never used INFINITY in a program before.  How do I use
>INFINIITY?  Do I need to include a special library or just define it as the
>largest possible int value, or something else?

One good idea is to define INFINITE as INT_MAX (this is the largest number an
int can hold). This is at least how it works on  Visual C++ 6.0 (but I believe
it is more or less standard...). You have to include limits.h, where the INT_MAX
is defined. Doing this maintais portability.

Severi



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