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  1. Path: mail2news.demon.co.uk!dfdesign.demon.co.uk
  2. From: Dominic Feeley <dom@dfdesign.demon.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: operator % - compiler error
  5. Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 19:32:41 GMT
  6. Organization: DF Designs
  7. Message-ID: <827263961snz@dfdesign.demon.co.uk>
  8. References: <4ihuuh$6ul@hatathli.csulb.edu>
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  14. In article <4ihuuh$6ul@hatathli.csulb.edu> davidcho@csulb.edu "David Cho" writes:
  15.  
  16. > When I try to compile, I get an erro message for the following line:            >
  17. >
  18. > x=663608941*y%pow(2,32)  /*I want remainder*/
  19. >
  20. > But the error message says "illegal use of floating point".  What does
  21. > that mean?  Isn't % used a an operator to calcuate the remainder?
  22.  
  23. Yes, but the operands of % must be of integral type in ANSI C
  24. pow() returns a double.
  25.  
  26. Regards,
  27. Dominic.
  28.  
  29. -- 
  30. Dominic Feeley
  31.