Passing values to functions

[Peter J. Holsberg]

Dumb question:  if in an assignment like
		x = 3;
where x is declared a double, the 3 is simply widened to the size of a
double, why does this fail?
		min = minimum( min, x );
where
		double minimum( double, double );

Thanks.

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