Alternative Arithmetic (Final Flag) Writeup

Solved By : nigamelastic and choco

• I will use the following to run this java compiler to run my code online.

• on connecting we see the first question which is:

4th question :

Enter 3 `String` values `s1`, `s2`, and `s3` such that:

new BigDecimal(s1).add(new BigDecimal(s2)).compareTo(new BigDecimal(s3)) == 0

but

Double.parseDouble(s1) + Double.parseDouble(s2) != Double.parseDouble(s3)

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• answer 4 worked but very stupidly: i will paste my inputs and outputs and you just see :

First attempt

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s1 = 0.004
s2 = -0.003
s3 = 0.001
Sorry, your answer is not correct. Try something else next time.

Second attempt

s1 = 20000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000004
s2 = -10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000003
s3 = 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
Sorry, your answer is not correct. Try something else next time.

Third attempt

s1 = 0.04
s2 = -0.03
s3 = 0.01
Perfect! You are correct.

• credits to choco, who guided me, and after our discussion we realised for some reason 0.04 is working but 0.004 isn’t choco also pointed out this amazing link https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

• finally we discussed and realized the following :

• according to double : ```bash 0.003 will be represented as 3.00000000000000006245004513517E-3 0.004 will be represented as 4.00000000000000008326672684689E-3 0.02 will be represented as 2.00000000000000004163336342344E-2

but

0.03 will be represented 2.99999999999999988897769753748E-2

* after this stupidity we finally get the 5th and final option:

1. Final question! [🎶BOSS MUSIC🎶]

Fill in , , below:

```java
var i = (<type>) <num1>; var j = (<type>) <num2>;

such that after running the code above, the following expression:

i < j || i == j || i > j

evaluates to `false`.

<num1> and <num2> are Java code that satisfies this regex: [0-9]*\.?[0-9]*

• which is very easy , I remember it from my college days
• its Integer 128
• this is due to the integer cache limits
• the following link would be a better explanation
• https://www.programmersought.com/article/91462031238/