doubt in c??

[ravikiran032]

# include <stdio.h>
# include <conio.h>
#define squ(x) x*x
main( )
{
float s=10,u=30,t=2,a;
a=2*(s-u*t)/squ(t);
printf(“result :%f”,a);
}

output is -100.000 how is it possible??

[mvmalderen]

28 Posts, and no code tags??

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BTW, Where in your code are you making use of the conio library? If there's no need to use it, then don't use it, it's even not portable as well.

>output is -100.000 how is it possible??

float s=10,u=30,t=2,a;
a=2*(s[B]-u*t[/B])/squ(t);

In your code: u multiplied by t is greater than s, so if you subtract u*t from s then it's logical that the result is a negative number right?
(this is strictly according to the rules of algebra)

[Tom Gunn]

It helps to know what you expected. I'll guess that you wanted -25.0. Here's why you get -100.0. a=2*(s-u*t)/squ(t); uses the squ macro, and squ replaces itself with the macro text x*x with x replaced by the argument t. Your statement looks like this after the replacement:

a=2*(s-u*t)/t*t;

* and / have the same precedence and are evaluated left to right. If you wanted -25.0 as a result, x*x has to be surrounded by parentheses:

a=2*(s-u*t)/(t*t);

That's why it's a good habit to surround your macro text expressions with parentheses. And for the same reason, the macro parameter:

#define squ(x) ((x)*(x))

You should be very careful with macros like this because if you pass an expression with side effects as the argument, the side effect will be evaluated twice:

int b = 1;

printf("%d\n", squ(b++)); /* squ(b++) replaced with ((b++)*(b++)) */

printf(“result :%f”,a);

If you don't print a '\n' character somewhere, the output might look weird.

[MosaicFuneral]

conio.h isn't used, and should never be.
Macros used like that are dangerous.
It's: int main() { return(0); }