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Re: operation of 'round' function
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maierh |
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Re: operation of 'round' function |
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07 Feb 2002 19:29:24 +0100 |
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ronan.waide@euroconex.com (Ronan Waide) writes:
> This may be a bug, or may simply be a failure of understanding on my
> part. However.
>
> GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Mon Jul 30 2001
> on stripples.devel.redhat.com
>
> (round 0.5) = 0
> (round 1.5) = 2
> (round 2.5) = 2
> (round 3.5) = 4
> (round 4.5) = 4
>
FYI. The mingw NT emacs (GNU Emacs 21.1.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195))
produces the following output:
(round 0.5) = 1
(round 1.5) = 2
(round 2.5) = 3
(round 3.5) = 4
(round 4.5) = 5
Harald
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maierh@myself.com wrote:
> ronan.waide@euroconex.com (Ronan Waide) writes:
>
> > (round 0.5) = 0
> > (round 1.5) = 2
> > (round 2.5) = 2
> > (round 3.5) = 4
> > (round 4.5) = 4
>
> FYI. The mingw NT emacs (GNU Emacs 21.1.90.1
> (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195)) produces the following output:
>
> (round 0.5) = 1
> (round 1.5) = 2
> (round 2.5) = 3
> (round 3.5) = 4
> (round 4.5) = 5
I guess this proves the often-cited text in the Perl
documentation. It is equally true for Emacs.
Rounding in financial applications can have seri-
ous implications, and the rounding method used
should be specified precisely. In these cases, it
probably pays not to trust whichever system round-
ing is being used by Perl, but to instead imple-
ment the rounding function you need yourself.
Peter
--
I put the batteries the wrong way in my flashlight.
Now when I turn it on, it gets dark.
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Re: operation of 'round' function,
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Re: operation of 'round' function, Andreas Schwab, 2002/02/08
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