Subj : Re: Math error ??? doen't make sense!
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : mike
Date : Fri Jul 02 2004 03:05 am

> Ch 9 Exercise 3
> -------------------
>
> #include<stdio.h>
> #include<math.h>
> main()
> {
> int x,y;
> long int z;
>
> x=7000;
> y=12000;
> z=x*y;
>
> printf("x * y == %lu\n",z);
>
> return 0;
> }
> --------------------------
>
> the above code should print 84000000.
> It doen't. I got 4294950144


it does for me. how are you compiling it?

$ bcc32 tmp.cpp
Borland C++ 5.6.4 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2002 Borland
tmp.cpp:
Turbo Incremental Link 5.65 Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Borland

tmp.exe
x * y == 84000000

mike

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