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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help with function
Keywords: abs(), strtod(), don't work
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Date: 8 Jan 90 18:06:07 GMT
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Aside from the fact, ast pointed out already, that strtod() is
returning a decimal rather than a double, abs() returns, and expects,
a decimal as well.  Use fabs().*

*Actually, abs() on many systems is "generic," but it isn't required to be.
strtod never is.
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