Thread: Problem with sqrt and cast

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    Problem with sqrt and cast

    There is something I don't understand about casting. This works if I put a double in the place of (float)n.

    Code:
    #include <math.h>
    ...
    int n = 10;
    ....
    printf("%f\n", sqrt((float)n));

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    What's your question? double and float are both floating point types, the difference is that double has more precision.

    sqrt() takes a double type as the parameter. If you give it a int or a float, it will be implicitly converted to a double, so the cast is actually unnecessary.
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