From: James W Sager Iii <sager+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Whats up with sqrt?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 00:18:33 -0500
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For me, the function sqrt() which obviously returns a square root is
messing up for me on moderately large numbers.

anything below 10,000 and it gives me about the right answer, but at like:

range = sqrt(300,000)

I get a 0 as a return value?  I tried doing:

int range;
double range;
float range;

Nothing seemed to work. Anyone else ever have problems with sqrt?
I'm prolly gonna check faqs and news groups for a few moments then
rewrite the function if I get nothing.  I'm not stuck, just mildly
perplexed at the moment.