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Re: gawk round-up 0.5 bug?
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Jeff Chua |
Subject: |
Re: gawk round-up 0.5 bug? |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:16:55 +0800 |
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I would think 0.5 should be rounded to 1.
> Since 0.5 is exactly half-way between 0 and 1 it is rounded to the
> nearest even number. This is the default rounding mode for IEEE
> floating point systems.
Thanks for the pointer. All the while, I've been just rounding up and
didn't know that there's the IEEE even-rounding method.
Jeff.