I have to admit, I did not understand your earlier comment until just now.
Sorry about the code change, the first version was from an old memory and the new version is what happened after I stared at it for a while :) Primitive values are automatically initialized to 0 in C. As for the ratio, it will probably just give a good approximation of 1 as a gets large! Also if you have a good square root function, you can use it to find a Fibonacci number in constant time, so your ratio will always be 1 (until the square root is too big to be computed in a single instruction).
I have to admit, I did not understand your earlier comment until just now.
From the number of downvotes, I think it was mis-parsed by several HN readers. This happens to me quite often, on many a website, but I have no inkling why.
Sorry about the code change, the first version was from an old memory and the new version is what happened after I stared at it for a while
No worries, I thought the original slice of code that you posted was more interesting and novel, it wouldn't have occurred to me off the top of my head.
Primitive values are automatically initialized to 0 in C.
I had to look that up, good old Stack Overflow has again furnished us with an explanation.
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I have to admit, I did not understand your earlier comment until just now.
Sorry about the code change, the first version was from an old memory and the new version is what happened after I stared at it for a while :) Primitive values are automatically initialized to 0 in C. As for the ratio, it will probably just give a good approximation of 1 as a gets large! Also if you have a good square root function, you can use it to find a Fibonacci number in constant time, so your ratio will always be 1 (until the square root is too big to be computed in a single instruction).
No, they're not. Automatic variables without an initializer have an indeterminate value. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6212921/is-un-initialized...
From the number of downvotes, I think it was mis-parsed by several HN readers. This happens to me quite often, on many a website, but I have no inkling why.
No worries, I thought the original slice of code that you posted was more interesting and novel, it wouldn't have occurred to me off the top of my head.
I had to look that up, good old Stack Overflow has again furnished us with an explanation.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10089551/what-are-primiti...
Oh, C, C++, what's the difference. (D'oh!)
One of the reasons I stick to old C, less confusion.