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From: xwang@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Xiang-Min Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Simple atof() question
Message-ID: <3910@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 91 03:43:50 GMT
References: <1214@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: xwang@gmuvax2.UUCP (Xiang-Min Wang)
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In article <1214@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> armstron@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Armstrong) writes:
>
>How can I get atof() to return a float instead of a double? 
>When I run this simple program I get n = 37.549999 instead of
>n = 37.55.  What am I doing wrong?
>

I think the error is caused by the physical machine. It is nothing to do
with the float-type conversion. Also, I think you did what you needed to
do.

>Jim Armstrong			  "The nonpayment and subsequent abuse of

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