Re: [HACKERS] Warning!!

It only happens here for some figues, not all....  mostly xx.x[1234]

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > I'm very new to this list, and I have to first say that 6.4beta5 fixes
> > > every problem I had encountered with 6.3.2 (A small list..)
> > > Just now I saw and posted this...
> > > If the pence is 0-4 it rounds down... surely that's a rounding bug 
> > > because it should be looking at the next significant figure?
> > 
> > tgl=> select cash_mul_flt8('$123.77', '1');
> > cash_mul_flt8
> > -------------
> > $123.77
> > (1 row)
> > 
> > tgl=> select cash_mul_flt8('$1', '123.77');
> > cash_mul_flt8
> > -------------
> > $123.76
> > (1 row)
> > 
> > That's annoying; it's non-symmetric too. The money type is stored as an
> > integer, and the float type is an IEEE double; looks like we have an LSB
> > rounding problem. Not sure what to do about it other than remove the
> > function, which isn't desirable I'm sure...
> 
> This is really bad.  I can't imagine a 5-digit double is loosing
> rounding on a double.  There must be some other problem, but I can't
> reproduce it here on BSD/OS.
> 
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James (james@linuxrocks.co.uk)
Vortex Internet
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