Simple atof() question

[Jim Armstrong]

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?


#include <stdio.h>

main()
{

double atof();
char buf[10];
float n;

strcpy(buf,"37.55");
n = (float) atof(buf);
printf("n = %f\n",n);

}


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