From: "Tim Nicholson" <T DOT J DOT Nicholson AT btinternet DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: exp() doesn't work !
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:51:16 +0100
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Good trick

Your code does not even take the exponent of s, What you got was just the
un-initialised value of s!!!

> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <math.h>
>
> int main() file://int argc, char **argv)
> {
> double s;
>
>  printf("%40.20g\n",s);
>  exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
> }
>
> prints                     1.0000000000000031086
>
> what did you expect ? e^0.0 == 1.0 !
>
> --
>  Gruss Waldemar Schultz.         schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de
>  Technische Universität München, Zentrum Mathematik M1, D 80290 München
>  Tel: +49 (0)89 2892 8226        FAX: +49 (0)89 2892 8228
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