----Original Message----
>From: Peter J. Acklam
>Sent: 30 June 2005 13:13
> Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR please! TIA!
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> How come "0.125" gets printed as "0.12", and not "1.3"?
>>
>> Absolutely, there's a rounding error of some sort.
>
> For what it's worth: My Sunblade 100 running Solaris 9 has
> Solaris' /bin/printf and GNU's printf as /usr/local/bin/printf
> and both give "0.12", not "0.13".
>
> I am quite sure it is the printf returning "0.13" that is buggy.
Have you considered that your sunblade might be operating in a different
rounding mode, by default?
> Note that the value "0.125" can be represented exactly with IEEE
> double precision arithmetic, so inexact representation is not the
> matter here.
I never suggested it was. Nonetheless, I would imagine that printf may
well work under-the-hood by shifting the desired decimal places above the
point, rounding to integer, and printing out that number.
cheers,
DaveK
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