From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: sqrt() problem
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 08:16:55 -0800
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A. Sinan Unur wrote:

> (just for the record) there is no such thing as the square root of
> 100-2500.

No kidding; (100 - 2500)^(1/2) is not real.  Thus, as per the ANSI C
standard, the result returned by sqrt is undefined.  That's why it's some
wacky number; it doesn't have to return anything reasonable.  errno would
also indicate that there was a domain error, if the original poster had
been looking.

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