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| From: | Steve Simmons |
| Subject: | Re: Numeric Error that is also present in UNIX awk/nawk |
| Date: | Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:59:15 GMT |
| User-agent: | slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) |
Saxon <address@hidden> wrote on 10/03/05 at 20:26:
> The following generates the wrong number:
> * gawk 'BEGIN { print int(16.240*1000); exit }'
'int' truncates rather than round. And floating point arithmetic
is always a bit dicey.
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