Thank you. I wish the documentation was a bit more clear on this. -Amin Al-Juffali ajuffali@xxxxxxx On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:03 AM, Marc Glisse wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Amin Al-Juffali wrote: > >> I have wrote a simple program that assigns a complex number a number in the form of a + b*I >> and when I print it the numbers I noticed loss of precision. It does not seem it is recognizing it as a double. >> >> #include <stdio.h> >> #include <math.h> >> #include <complex.h> >> >> int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) { >> >> complex double y[1][1]; >> >> y[0][0] = (double) -0.107692307692308 + (double) 0.061538461538462*I; > > No need for the "(double)" here. > >> >> printf("\n------------------- Complex Array Assignment ---------------------------------------------------\n"); >> printf("\n(%+10.15f,%+10.15f)", crealf(y[0][0]), cimagf(y[0][0])); > > See the 'f' at the end of crealf and cimagf? It is 'f' as in "float". Use creal and cimag instead. > >> printf("\n"); >> printf("\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n"); >> >> >> return 0; >> } >> >> This is what you will get: >> >> ------------------- Complex Array Assignment --------------------------------------------------- >> >> (-0.107692308723927,+0.061538461595774) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Marc Glisse