Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/03/17/02:00:04
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.msdos.djgpp: 17-Mar-101 RE: Whats up with
sqrt? by Prashant Ramachandra AT wil
>
> On Saturday, March 17, 2001 10:49 AM, James W Sager Iii
> [SMTP:sager+@andrew.cmu.edu] wrote:
> | For me, the function sqrt() which obviously returns a square root
> | is
> | messing up for me on moderately large numbers.
> |
> | anything below 10,000 and it gives me about the right answer, but at
> | like:
> |
> | range = sqrt(300,000)
> |
> | I get a 0 as a return value? I tried doing:
>
> Don't use commas while sending parameters. It's giving you the square root
> of the second parameter, i.e. 0.
>
> range = sqrt (300000.0);
>
> is the right way to do it.
I'm sorry, I wasn't using commas... but at the same time I wasn't using
.0. so perhaps it was being type casted wrong.
but I tested it
a=sqrt(10001.0);
returns 100516
Ok, that makes no sense what so ever
well at least I have my own function to do it no biggie
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