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echo: os2prog
to: John Poltorak
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1995-03-29 14:36:10
subject: scanf

JP> [F:\dev\c]ex3
 JP> Enter length: 12
 JP> Enter width: 15
 JP> area is 180
 JP> [F:\dev\c]

 JP> I am simply stunned to find ICC acting in such an erroneous way with 
 JP> something so trivial.

It was not erroneous. ISO C allows a compile to buffer stdout.

 JP> when displaying numbers of type 'double'. All this

Please post code -- IEEE floating point rounding errors are common when you
are not aware of them.


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