scanf doesn't work for variables of type double

[Shankar Unni]

> I posted  a question about scanf last week. I could not scanf a double

> careful enough. Using %lf and %F would have worked. Printf accepts %f
                               ^^^

NO. Don't use "%F". It was a non-standard extension to K&R at best, and
will not work at all for ANSI C (since %F is exactly equivalent to %f).

Stick to %lf.
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