Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard

From: Randy Howard (randyhoward_at_FOOverizonBAR.net)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:51:33 GMT

In article <XLudnYz7ocXEtb_fRVn-2Q@comcast.com>, tlj3@comcast.net
says...
> Strange, I assumed it was a prime. Think such a key manifest constant
> might deserve an explanatry comment? How about the whole routine? Why
> should we be guessing?
>
> The bit about "comments omitted in the interest of publishing economy"
> does not work for code distributed to students and intended as model
> code. Fail the instructor.

Actually the number was included in the original assignment, and
it was not prime. It was also not a power of 2, but evenly divisible
by 5. 

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