liorean wrote: > 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
Well, it's likely only a small bug in the reference implementation rather than a requirement of the specification, so not too big a deal I'd think. > - books, tutorials, references and real > world code all take for granted that halves alway round up. Err, right. Round up, not round to zero. Thanks for the correction. _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
