actually book pages are images. My question is why second statement may result in overflow ? * Sanjay Kumar B.Tech Final Year Department of Computer Engineering National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra Kurukshetra - 136119 Haryana, India Contact: +91-8053566286, +91-9729683720 *
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 3:07 AM, saurabh singh <saurab...@gmail.com> wrote: > not clear what you are trying to ask...can you quote exactly from the > book? > Saurabh Singh > B.Tech (Computer Science) > MNNIT > blog:geekinessthecoolway.blogspot.com > > > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Sanjay Rajpal <srn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In binary search, >> >> mid = start + (end-start)/2 is used to avoid overflow, as said by a book. >> >> why can't we use mid = (start + end)/2, it says this statement may result >> in overflow ? >> * >> Sanjay Kumar >> B.Tech Final Year >> Department of Computer Engineering >> National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra >> Kurukshetra - 136119 >> Haryana, India >> Contact: +91-8053566286 >> * >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
