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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: re: IF KICK-BACK GREATER THAN...
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Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 10:32:50 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  9 10:32:50 1984
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> In Pascal you can write IF KICK-BACK GREATER THAN 10 AND LESS THAN 100 THEN
> 
>   as
>     IF Kick_back IN [10..100] THEN
>  
>   or how about
>     IF Kick_back IN [10,20,30,40,50] THEN
>   if you only want multiples of 10 ?
 
True, but it requires an order of magnitude more CPU time than two comparisons.

-- Norman Diamond

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