Simple atof() question

[Xiang-Min Wang]

In article <1214 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu> armstron at cs.arizona.edu (Jim Armstrong) writes:
>
>How can I get atof() to return a float instead of a double? 
>When I run this simple program I get n = 37.549999 instead of
>n = 37.55.  What am I doing wrong?
>

I think the error is caused by the physical machine. It is nothing to do
with the float-type conversion. Also, I think you did what you needed to
do.

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