/* Terry D. Johnson 091400

  This program demonstrates the granularity problem by adding a small float to
  a large float one million times.
*/


#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	int i;
	float big, small, sum;

/* Asks the user to input a small number and a large number as floats. */

	printf("Input a big number, please.\n");
	scanf("%f", &big);
	printf("Now input a small number.\n");
	printf("I'm going to add the small number to the big number a million times!\n");
	scanf("%f", &small);

/* Adds the small number to the big number a million times. */

	sum = big;

	for (i = 1; i <= 1000000; i++) {
		sum = sum + small;
	}

/* Prints the result onto the screen. */

	printf("The big number plus a million small numbers is: ");
	printf("%f", sum);
	printf("\n...isn't it? D'oh!\n");

return(0);

}