a *= b not equivalent to a = a*b

mlzarathustra at gmail.com mlzarathustra at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 02:40:50 EDT 2016


Precedence, d'oh!

        rs *= (n-(i-1))/i  
is equivalent to:
        rs = rs * ((n-(i-1))/i)

not
        rs = rs * (n-(i-1))/i 

which is the same as 
        rs = ( rs * (n-(i-1)) )  /i 


Ken Iverson was right. Precedence is a bad idea.







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