Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:11:45 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Whats up with sqrt?
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> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:57:55 -0500 (EST)
> From: James W Sager Iii <sager+@andrew.cmu.edu>
> >  
> > 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

Probably some bug with printf format when printing the result.

Unless you post some real code we can work with, we could go on
guessing like that till Kingdom Come.