Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/03/17/00:52:32
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.
--
Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>
Web: http://www.midpec.com/
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