COMPUTER FUNDAMENTAL & C PROGRAMMING ‘ \ b’
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We often use certain unique constants in a program. These constants may appear repeatedly in a number of places in the program. For example of such a constant is 3.142 representing the value of the mathematical constant “pi”. We face two problems in the subsequent use of program. They are: 1. Problem in modification of the program. 2. Problem in understanding the program. (f)
Modifiability
We may like to change the value of “pi” from 3.142 to 3.14159 to improve the accuracy of calculation. In this case, we will have to search throughout the program and explicitly change the value of the constant wherever it has been used. If any value is left unchanged, the program may produce incorrect outputs. (g) Understandability Assignment of a symbolic name to numeric constants frees us problems like same value means different things in different places. For example, the number 40 may mean the number of students at one place and the “pass marks” at another place of the same program. We may use the name STRENGTH to denote the number of students and PASS_MARK to denote the pass marks required in subject. Constant values are assigned to these names at the beginning of the program. A constant is declared as follows: #define symbolic-name value of constant; Valid examples are: #define STRENGTH = 40; #define PASS_MARK = 40; #define PI = 3.1459; Rules for forming the symbolic constants are: Symbolic names take the same form as variable names. But, they are written in CAPITALS. No blank space between the pound sign ‘#’ and word define is permitted. ‘#’ must be the first character in the line. A blank space required between #define and symbolic name and between the symbolic name and the constant.
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