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APCS: Review of the Basics Drill 2, Problem 3. What is the output of the following code segment?

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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by floating point variables there the point

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Nine nine nine nine nine and an eight You can

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count on what is the output of the following code

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segment for a night of eating thai food Keep pressing

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right And here your potential answers Okay true false got

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it All right let's Go let's take a look at

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what this code segment is trying to do First we

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get two double variables The first being given the value

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of ten and a second being given the value of

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zero Then we start a loop The loop begins counting

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with inger i zero halt when i stopped being less

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than fifty and increases i buy one each time the

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loop like once inside the loop will be adding point

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to numb teo over and over and over again fifty

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times total since that's how long our loop will run

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afterwards we'll have three statements Print results of a few

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operations were the first prints the tour false results of

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whether numb one equals to the second print through her

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false based on whether numb one divided by two equals

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one same number and not zero And the third prince

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true or false depending on whether numb one minus number

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two equal zero again away to check if they're the

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same number So let's try and predict the kinds of

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results will get All right Back up to our loop

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We've got numb to starting out equal to zero and

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we add point two two it fifty times Well in

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california fifty towns point two is ten so after the

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loop is finished running canting treating tonight someone in them

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too should both be tense And if we plug that

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into our print statements we'd get numb One equals dumb

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two or ten equals ten True can divide by ten

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equals one true and minus ten equals zero True but

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way Just hold your horses one sec If you got

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your handy compiler you can pause the video here and

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try running the code yourself and no seriously give the

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shot will wait here's the code again and a picture

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of a cold er Yesterday all my troubles seemed so

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far ready All right So what did you find out

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Well for those of you who didn't run the code

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this is what happened Falls all falls which is our

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answered the question by the way option he but wait

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Why Tennis Ten right there's Not much That could possibly

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go wrong with the statement Tennis Just ten even in

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california with all you communists out there But i will

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unless tennis somehow not ten Well let's add a line

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to the end of the snippet to investigate a little

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more closely We'll have it print the actual value of

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numb to to make sure we're getting the ten that

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we paid for system out print line none too And

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go well ten is not ten it's Very very close

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But it's just not in this case It's like nine

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point nine nine nine nine nine six something that's why

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our statements returned false and it's Not even a bug

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issue here has to do with the very nature of

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floating point arithmetic Those double variables we declared earlier and

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more formally known as double precision floating point variables which

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is to say is not quite as solid as an

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imager it's More like an approximation of a real number

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This has its uses when dealing with very complicated numbers

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that don't quite need to be perfectly exact The distance

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to the next galaxy over for example like that But

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when you're dealing with the values that need to be

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concrete like money do yourself a favor and compute using

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interest or long otherwise you're going to be going people

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One craw drill yin of a penny and your knives 00:03:32.22 --> [endTime] probably aren't that shark even against you

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