Graydon Hoare wrote: > - You can actually represent 0.5 in the first place! Binary floating > point cannot. Decimal can. In the default decimal context, 0.5 + 0.5 > gives an exact decimal answer; there is no rounding to worry about.
Oops, excuse me: 0.1. As I've had pointed out, 0.5 is happily representable in both :) (And ... I appear to be quick on the draw on this thread anyways; if the RI happens to set up its binary floating point rounding modes, that's a correctly-reported bug in it. SML/NJ has surprised us with its mapping of IEEE754 binary floating point several times already. No change to the existing ES3 binary floating point is intended. Sorry, mea culpa.) -Graydon _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
