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Re: gawk round-up 0.5 bug?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: gawk round-up 0.5 bug?
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:10:39 +0200
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"Jeff Chua" <address@hidden> writes:

> This is intended to be?
>
> # awk 'BEGIN {printf("%.0f\n", 0.5)}'
> 0
>
> # awk 'BEGIN {printf("%.0f\n", 0.51)}'
> 1
>
> # gawk --version
> GNU Awk 3.1.6
>
> I would think 0.5 should be rounded to 1.

Why?

(info "(gawk)Round Function")

-- 
David Kastrup





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