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From: elzea@sersun0.essex.ac.uk (El-Zein A A)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: log10(8)
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Date: 25 Feb 90 18:15:10 GMT
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	My calculator gives me 0.9030899 for log(8),

	While the following code (which I thought would
	
	give me the above value of 0.9030899) prints 
	
	-312.770165.

	.
	.
	.
	.
	double l;
	.
	.
	l = log10(8);
	printf("%f", l);
        .
	.
	.


	Can anybody tell me why.


			thanks in advance,

			Mustapha;