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- From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
- Subject: Re: Re: Even/Odd rounding
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.121308.25407@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <REXXLIST%92122913221518@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:13:08 GMT
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- From article <REXXLIST%92122913221518@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>, by Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET>:
- > Mike, I am still not sure I understand this arbitrary precision business.
- > You only need to detect the case of exactly .50000000000000000000..., since
- > that is the only place the even/odd result differs from the round .5 up
- > rule. Or am I missing something? (Probably) Dave
-
- I am coming in on this mid-discussion, so I might be missing some
- subtlety, anyway...
-
- If you wanted 100.99 style precision, then the rounding is +/-.005 at the
- threshold, not .5 as you surmise.
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