[squeak-dev] Float rounding issue

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Mon May 7 01:55:36 UTC 2012


On Sun, 6 May 2012, Chris Muller wrote:

> With the latest trunk updates, I'm having trouble rounding to my
> desired precision:
>
>     0.9580000000000001 roundTo: 0.0001    " 0.9580000000000001"
>
> In Squeak 4.3 I get what I expect:
>
>     0.9580000000000001 roundTo: 0.0001   " 0.958"
>
>

I'm pretty sure it's just a difference in printing. 0.958 is unlikely to 
have an exact base 2 representation.


Levente


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