[aclug-L] Re: C problem redux....

[Larry Bottorff <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Chapman wrote:
> 
> > Here's the output:
> >
> > number: 5.333009
> > number: 349440.000000
> >
> > Where on earth is it getting 349440.000000 ? I get the same results when
> > I try atof(number). Sunday is an odd day, right?
> >
> > Larry Bottorff
> 
> right. that's because the default precision specifier for floating point
> is '%1.6f'. if you don't want all those decimal places printed use
> something like '1.2' or '1.0'.
> 
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Issue deeper. I fooled around with %lf, %f, %g, no dice. I just tried
the code on a Debian machine: worked fine. I'm using SuSE 6.3. Ouch!

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