Computer Science: A Structured Programming Approach Using C. Second Edition.

Behrouz A. Forouzan and Richard F. Gilberg

Brooks/Cole Publishing
(ISBN: 0-534-37482-4)

This document contains errata for the book. Status in the table below indicates the print run that contains the
correction: 0 indicates that the problem has been reported but not yet corrected, 2 indicates that the errata was
corrected in the second printing, and so forth..

Status Page Subject Correction

3 66 Problem 39 MS Visual C/C++ does not load the floating point I/O unless it finds a
floating point definition. When the program runs, it crashes with a
system message. To prevent the problem, change the variable defini-
tions to float.

0 70 Table 3-1 Prefix decrement has a side effect. Change 'N' to 'Y' (Unary line 2)

0 92 Text In Program 3-8 Analysis, change last line to read “…we cast the
result of the floating-point division into a character.”

0 111 Exercise 21e Reformat "--" operators: x–– – y––

0 111 Exercise 25c, d, e Reformat "--" operators:

c. ––x + y++
d. x–– + x–– – y––
e. x + y–– – x + x++ – ––y
0 111 Exercise 26e Reformat "--" operators: y++ + z–– + x++
3 137 Figure 4-14 Add semicolon at end of first statement: fun(a);

3 139 Figure 4-15 (1) Change name and add semicolon to prototype statement:
void fun (int *x);
(2) Add semicolon at end of first statement:
fun (&a);

2 145 Figure 4-20 Move plus after ellipse next to infinity symbol in both parts of the fig-
ure.

0 151 Figure 4-23 In main, change third variable definition to float y (not c).

2 171 Problem 45, Change lines 8 and 10 to read:

Algorithm 4-2 8 Display ceiling of product.
10 Display number raised to power 5.

0 180 De Morgan’s Replace “To demonstrate... below.” just above expressions with:
Rule “When the original expression is complex—that is, when it con-
tains both and and or expressions—the implied evaluation prece-
dence requires that parentheses be added around the original and
expressions as shown in the following example.”
Add parentheses around first and last or expressions in the con-
verted expression as follows:
(!x || !y)…(!t || u)

0 227 Project 60 Add parenthesis at beginning of formula for calculating Dec. 31

(((year – 1) * 365) + ...) % 7

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 Computer Science: A Structured Programming Approach Using C. Second Edition.
Behrouz A. Forouzan and Richard F. Gilberg
Brooks/Cole Publishing
(ISBN: 0-534-37482-4)

Status Page Subject Correction

0 228 Project 64 In the formula for calculating the roots, –b belongs in numerator:

2 2
– b + b – 4ac – b – b – 4ac
x1 = --------------------------------------- x1 = --------------------------------------
2a 2a

2 256 Program 6-14 Add closing parenthesis before semicolon in printf at statement 14.

2 298 Project 56 Calculation for first day of year should add 1 before taking modulo.
Replace ((…) % 7) + 1
with ((…) + 1) % 7

0 298 Project 57 In monthly payment (MP) formula, add round to two decimal places
MP = (PR * IM * Q) rounded to two decimal places

0 300 Project 59 The required output will not fit in 20 rows. Change last line to delete
“of” and “by 20 rows” so it reads:
each table…monitor display of 80 columns.

3 312 Figure 7-9 Format box for printf: change maximum width to minimum width.

3 356 Figure 8-7(a) Right Column: remove 'n' from initialization of lotsOfNumbers.
int lotsOfNumbers [1000] = {0};

0 418 Problem 34 Delete hint in last line of problem.

3 474 Figure 10-4 Definition of p should be pointer, as: int *p;

2 627 Program 12-9 This program works only in Big-Endian hardware (see page 625).

2 672 Program 13-4 At statement 22 add:

fseek (fp1, 0, 2);
For more information on this, see the one program download
“read.me” file for Chapter 13

2 676 Program 13-5 Line 72, delete the dereference (*) so it reads: if (ioResult).

0 792 Figure C-9 Change text in termination from END to STOP

0 796 Figure C-16 Reverse blocks in loop:

sum = sum + num THEN
READ (num)
3 872 Exercise 29 The answers are mislabeled. Change answers b to d, c to b, e to d,
and c to e. Then change the new answer c as shown below:
a. num[2]
b. num[i + j]
c. num[0] + num[num[1]]
d. num[j]
e. num[i] + num[j]

3 873 Exercise 33 Exchange answers to b and d so that b becomes d and d becomes b.

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