From: Darren Grant <darn AT merlin DOT imag DOT net>
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Subject: Re: simple thing
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:41:57 -0700
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Oon Lin wrote:
> 
>   printf("Vertical Retrace Time = %f \n", 1/70) ;


"1" and "70" are both implicitly declared as ints above.  It's just the
way C works.  You can get around this by explicitly casting the values
as floats or doubles (recommended), or trailing the whole numbers with
decimal points (e.g. "1." and "70." or even "1.0" and "70.0").