From: "Blaine Hodge" <bmhodge AT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Whatever the input, the output is always 0
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Try scanf("%lf%lf", &a, &b);
you need to pass pointers to the doubles, not the values.

Jason Yip wrote in message <82gbc8$gq0$1 AT imsp026 DOT netvigator DOT com>...
>whatever I input, say 4.0 5.0, the output is always =0 . why??
>pls tell me. thx..
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <math.h>
>double side (double a,double b)
>{return sqrt(pow(a,2)+pow(b,2));}
>
>main ()
>{double a,b,s;
>printf("Enter the sides of the triangle: ");
>scanf("%lf%lf",a,b);
>s=side(a,b);
>printf("Hyotenuse: %.1f",s);
>}
>
>
>