From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: sqrt() problem
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 10:36:50 -0500
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Richard Slobod wrote:
> 
> "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
> >
> >(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).

sorry, i should have said "there is no such thing as the sqrt of
100-2500." ;-)

sinan.