From: Prashant Ramachandra <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Message-ID: <5BF60CD649EDD411A04600B0D049F53A09257B@hydmail02.hyd.wilco-int.com>
Subject: RE: Whats up with sqrt?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:19:15 +0530
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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.
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Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>
Web: http://www.midpec.com/


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