Recent Number Posts

[mcleano]

Has anyone else thought it was weird that a lot of the new threads here are to do with people wanting to store/use numbers that are above the data type limits? e.g.

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/12501/
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/12439/
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/12352/

To name but a few...

[jsmith]

Well two of them are from the same poster who can't seem to understand that "no you can't do that" means you can't do that, even on your liquid nitrogen cooled, room-sized supercomputer.

[mcleano]

Which is odd considering a lot of tutorials start by teaching about variables, and their limits e.g. THIS SITE!

[Bazzy]

I find weird that they need those numbers for simple programs in which choosing eg. 127 would be the same
But as far as I can remember these are common questions

[helios]

I think it's safe to say that if someone needs to create an array large enough not to fit on the Internet and is not trying to solve a very complex mathematical problem, they're just misusing arrays.