[BUG][POSSIBLE FIXES]
Andres Valloud
sqrmax at cvtci.com.ar
Tue Oct 5 05:26:18 UTC 1999
Hi.
> My daughter has spent the last year being tormented by teachers
> asking her to round things to the nearest tenth. Another example is
> money after an interest computation, where you might regularly ask:
>
> (...expr...) roundTo: 0.01
>
> remembering that if we are using such a thing in a series of
> computations, we probably want to keep an accumulated sum and then
> subtract to arrive at our last result (or assign the remaining
> fractional penny to a "special" account :-)).
I also remember that for some floats, if you sent #roundTo: 0.01, the
answer was
blablabla.xy9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999...
Andres.
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