Reading in double values with scanf in c

Use the %lf format specifier to read a double:

double a;
scanf("%lf",&a);

Wikipedia has a decent reference for available format specifiers.

You’ll need to use the %lf format specifier to print out the results as well:

printf("%lf %lf",a,b);

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