On 11/11/2007, Jonathan Watt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've noticed that rounding in the reference implementation is implemented 
> using
> IEEE roundTiesToEven, but in browsers .5 values appear to round towards zero.
> Although roundTiesToEven is desirable from a computational point of view,
> there's likely a significant risk that changing to this method could break 
> some
> existing ECMAScript.

That's really serious breakage - books, tutorials, references and real
world code all take for granted that halves alway round up.
-- 
David "liorean" Andersson
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