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Subject: Re: Any reason to use C?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:53:43 07/30/03

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On July 29, 2003 at 15:31:11, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On July 29, 2003 at 15:17:51, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Of course, you can get bizarre in C too (the "C Puzzle Book" is proof enough of
>>that.)  I once had the displeasure of someone giving me a function that was a
>>64K return statement.  He thought it was cute.
>
>This is getting increasingly off-topic, but I cannot resist the temptation
>to post the cutest little C program I have ever seen.  It computes an
>approximation of pi by calculating its own area.  :-)
>
>
>/*
>  * Program to compute an approximation of pi
>  * by Brian Westley, 1988
>  * (requires pcc macro concatenation; try gcc -traditional-cpp)
>  */
>
>#define _ -F<00||--F-OO--;
>int F=00,OO=00;
>main(){F_OO();printf("%1.3f\n",4.*-F/OO/OO);}F_OO()
>{
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>}

You know C better than me.
I do not understand this program

I have define in my program but I do not understand

#define _ -F<00||--F-OO--;

If I understand correctly the computer should replace every _ by
-F<00||--F-OO--;

I do not understand what is the meaning of
int F=00,OO=00;

What is OO?
If it is a varaible then the program has uninitialized varaible.

Uri



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