What is the difference between the sun and the moon?

[Kenny McCormack]

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[Mike Wahler]

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#include <math.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>


ptrdiff_t sval(const char *s)
{
const char a[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

size_t v = 0;
const char *f = 0;

while(*s)

if(f = strchr(a, *s++))
v += f - a + 1;

return v;
}

size_t diff(const char *s1, const char *s2)
{
return (ptrdiff_t)fabs(sval(s1) - sval(s2));
}

int main()
{
const char comp1[] = "the sun";
const char comp2[] = "the moon";

printf("The difference betweeen %s and %s is %lu\n",
comp1, comp2, (unsigned long)diff(comp1, comp2));

return 0;
}


-Mike

 

[Kenneth Brody]

Kenny McCormack wrote in the subject line:

What is the difference between the sun and the moon?

One is purple and the other is salty.

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[Alexei A. Frounze]

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Unless you're disabled and cannot see or sense, there's half a dozen of
properties that you should be able to list yourself.

Alex

 

[Keith Thompson]

Unless you're disabled and cannot see or sense, there's half a dozen of
properties that you should be able to list yourself.

Alex

Please do not feed the troll. (The fact that he's trying to make fun
of trolls may or may not make him less of a troll himself, but at the
very least don't take him seriously.)

 

[Old Wolf]

Unless you're disabled and cannot see or sense, there's half a dozen of
properties that you should be able to list yourself.

Well, I learned a new word from all this: syzygy (among
other things: when 3 bodies are lined up, esp. the Sun, Earth and Moon).

 

[Kenny McCormack]

Please do not feed the troll. (The fact that he's trying to make fun
of trolls may or may not make him less of a troll himself, but at the
very least don't take him seriously.)

Yes. Listen to the man. Him speakum truth.