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Computer Science Level 1

What is the output of the following c++ program? 

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 void main()
 {
 int a;
 a=0?(5>3?32:(11>17?(6>9?34:84):64)):1;
 printf("%d",a);
 }

Assumptions

  • The stdio.h library is available for this program.


The answer is 1.

Sayan Chaudhuri by Sayan Chaudhuri , 23, India

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1 solution

Ayesha Khurram
May 22, 2014

The operator used is assignment operator (=), not comparison operator (==). So a will be assigned a value of 0, which is false and the false part of ternary operator is 1 so a will then be assigned the value of 1.

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exactly correct

Khan Sameer - 6 years, 9 months ago

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