Re: One more question

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg <madsdyd@challenge.dk>]

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Ben C. wrote:

> vilohidi@mbnet.fi wrote:
> > 
> > Came in to my mind, Is there any better way to see if some integer is
> > +- 10 from another integer, than:
> > 
> > if((a<b+11) && (a>b-11))
> 
> Well, if you're doing this a lot, you could always write an inline/macro
> function to do it, but AFAIK, there's no more efficent way to do it.

c=a-b; if (abs(a)>11)

? Maybe more expensive? I do not know how hard abs is, but then maybe:

c=a-b; if (a<11 && a>-11)

?

Mads

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