Natural logarithm - strange output

Question

I want to use the natural logaritm in c-language.

I searched google and found a question of this at stackoverflow.com

But When I implement this I get a very cryptic output

here is the code

 double x = log(100 / 150);

 printf("d1: %lf", x);

and the output:

 d1: -1.#INF00

What is this? Is it some kind of garbage? What is wrong?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 27 '13 at 12:15

5

Integer division makes 100 / 150 equal to 0, therefore, log(0) is not defined.

Change the code to log(100.0 / 150.0).

answered Dec 27 '13 at 12:15

dreamzor

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 27 '13 at 12:18

0

If the parameter to log is 0, the output is implementation defined.

answered Dec 27 '13 at 12:18

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