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From: | 71231 DOT 104 AT compuserve DOT com (Richard Slobod) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: sqrt() problem |
Date: | Mon, 09 Dec 1996 15:01:55 GMT |
Organization: | Warwick Online |
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Message-ID: | <32ac23e6.8006142@news.warwick.net> |
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"A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu> wrote: >Erik Max Francis wrote: >> >> Murray Stokely wrote: >> >> > r and m are integers (10 and 50), yet s keeps returning a huge >> > negative number (should be like 51 or something) >> >> Quick quiz: What is the square root of 100 - 2500? I'll give you a hint: >> It ain't 51. >> > >(just for the record) there is no such thing as the square root of >100-2500. Sure there is; it's (approximately) i48.9897948557 (of course, the standard C math functions don't support imaginary numbers, so they won't get this right).
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