[squeak-dev] The joys (or not) of floating point numbers

Tue Mar 26 17:41:21 UTC 2013

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:32:31 +0100, Stéphane Rollandin
<lecteur at zogotounga.net> wrote:

>> Example (0.995 round: 2) -> 1.00 though 0.995 < (995/1000) so it
>> should round to 0.99.
>
>.. and I just noticed that
>
>	0.995 printShowingDecimalPlaces: 2   ==>  '1.00'
>
>Do we have a method returning the correct value ?

That looks right to me, because 0.995 was rounded up.

Lou
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