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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 19:17:51 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT darkside DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: header file <math.h>

On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Erik Max Francis wrote:

> Andy Molyneux <molyneua AT cs DOT man DOT ac DOT uk> writes:
> 
> > You're also using the wrong format character to printf; it should be "%f" 
> > not "%d" ("%d" is for ints, whereas "sin" returns a double)
> 
> Technically, a double should be formatted as an %lf.

Wrong.  %lf only applies to scanf(); printf() converts all floats to 
doubles anyway, according to ANSI C, so %f is the way to go.

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