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3:57am Wed 6th Sep, Christopher M.

"Jacob Read" <23*7*9*6@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote:

> Something tells me there might be some overflow in the sample solution. The timing definitely shouldn't be negative. This is using:

I believe the problem reporting negative I/O times has been corrected. Please report any problems. The arithmetic was being performed using a standard int (4 bytes), which overflowed with larger (faster) I/O speeds. If you're having similar problems, you can perform the arithmetic using int64_t or double. You may like to read about the ceil() function, too.