Simple atof() question

[Brendan Kehoe]

In <1214 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, armstron at cs.arizona.edu 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?
>[...]
>n = (float) atof(buf);
>printf("n = %f\n",n);
>[...]

  I have a feeling it's got something to do with the way printf takes
  its argument .. notice if ya do
	printf("n = %.2f\n", n);
  you do get 37.55.

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