From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Re^2: Rhide 1.0 & Exceptions
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 18:49:26 -0500
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Tom Demmer wrote:
> 
> the simplest program that exhibits this behavior is:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <math.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv){
>  double f=-0.1,g=0.2;
>  double foo;
> 
>  foo=sqrt(f/g);
> 
>  return 0;
> }
> 

i am just curious. why is there such a proliferation of people trying to
take sqrt of negative values?

sinan.

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