From: 71231 DOT 104 AT compuserve DOT com (Richard Slobod)
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Subject: Re: sqrt() problem
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 15:01:55 GMT
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"A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
>Erik Max Francis wrote:
>> 
>> Murray Stokely wrote:
>> 
>> > r and m are integers (10 and 50), yet s keeps returning a huge
>> > negative number (should be like 51 or something)
>> 
>> Quick quiz:  What is the square root of 100 - 2500?  I'll give you a hint:
>> It ain't 51.
>> 
>
>(just for the record) there is no such thing as the square root of
>100-2500.

Sure there is; it's (approximately) i48.9897948557 (of course, the
standard C math functions don't support imaginary numbers, so they
won't get this right).