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Re: Re4: Filthy Floats

by I0 (Priest)
on Jul 17, 2001 at 22:16 UTC ( [id://97396]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re4: Filthy Floats
in thread Filthy Floats

Round to even is best for bases equal to 2 mod 4, e.g. base 2 or base 10
Round to odd would be best for bases equal to 0 mod 4 
printf "%.20f => %.0f", 0.5, 0.5;
# prints
0.50000000000000000000 => 1

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Looks to me like a bug in printf...

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