From:	arg AT whangomatic DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk (Andrew R. Gillett)
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Subject:	Forgive me, for I have sinned without including math.h
Date:	Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:50:04 +0100
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I just found a strange anomaly. I had two identical functions in 
different programs using sin(). Each program gave significantly different 
results. I eventually found that one of them wasn't including math.h. 
Adding it fixed the problem.

I found that if I called sin() without #including math.h, the compiler 
would think it returned a fix instead of a double. I found this out when 
I was doing some tests with fprintf and sin - the compiler told me that a 
fix couldn't be passed through a ...

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