Re: Rounding....
| From: | Bogdan Stancescu | Date: | Mon, 11 Feb 2002 03:58:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Rounding.... | ||
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I guess that's because nobody knows beforehand which direction the fuzz should
go - should it go "a little" upwards or "a little" downwards in order to match
all systems?
Just my two cents.
Bogdan
Matthew Clark wrote:
> Seeing as the mathematically correct way to round numbers is to round down
> to n for n-1<=m<=n.5 and up to n+1 for n.5<m<n+1, I wonder why the PHP
> round() function couldn't include a little 'fuzz' to handle the rounding
> problems we encounter due to floating point representation in the hardware?
> It could even be a configurable option - but it would save writing a
> wrapper...
>
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