sqrt() function not working with variable arguments [duplicate]

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You need to link with the math library (use a ‘-lm’ on the command line). In the constant case, the compiler is probably being smart and precomputing sqrt(2.0) (so the code that is compiled is essentially ‘b = 1.414…;’)

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