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From: | Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net> |
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Subject: | Re: Whats up with sqrt? |
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Date: | Sat, 17 Mar 2001 06:59:44 GMT |
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James W Sager Iii 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? The value of (300,000) is 0. The value of (x,0) is 0. The ',' is a comma operator. The number you are looking for is 300000 or 3.0e5 (among a large number of equivalent representations).
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