From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Floating Point???
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:25:07 -0800
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George Foot wrote:

> `float' numbers aren't that accurate; use `double's instead. Replace
> `float'
> with `double' throughout, and change `%.12f' to `%.12lf', and you should
> get
> the right answer.

The %.12f is correct; floats are automatically promoted to doubles in
function calls.  %f is the printf specifier for double; there's only a
distinction between %f and %lf for floats and doubles, respectively, in
scanf.

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