From: "Anes Hadzic" <a DOT hadzic AT bih DOT net DOT ba>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Whatever the input, the output is always 0
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:57:48 +0100
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Jason Yip <manman AT netteens DOT net> wrote in message
news:82gbc8$gq0$1 AT imsp026 DOT netvigator DOT com...
> whatever I input, say 4.0 5.0, the output is always =0 . why??
> pls tell me. thx..
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <math.h>
> double side (double a,double b)
> {return sqrt(pow(a,2)+pow(b,2));}
>
> main ()
> {double a,b,s;
> printf("Enter the sides of the triangle: ");
> scanf("%lf%lf",a,b);
> s=side(a,b);
> printf("Hyotenuse: %.1f",s);
> }
>
>
>

Try with:

scanf("%lf%lf", &a, &b);