Hello,

Would you like I fill a GH issue for the remainder? With eventualIy a link
to this discussion ? it would not be a problem.

Greg

Le dim. 28 juil. 2024 à 12:44, Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]> a écrit :

> On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 10:09:15AM +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > > And there are nasty bordeline cases, for example when number is
> > > smaller than the next integer but the difference is smaller than
> > > resolution of the convertion.  Arguably in such case we should round
> > > up.
> >
> > Isn't that easy to solve by adding (or subtracting if the number is
> > negative) half of the precision (i.e. basically rounding the part after
> the
> > dot)?
> >
> > In fact, "round" is probably correct, but it should be round(10^n*x)/10^n
> > and then do the splitting.
>
> Well, that would work in exact artithmetic.  But the code tries to
> work in floating point and this is source of nasty troubles.  Also
> "normal" rounding mode for pinthing purpoose should be "round to nearest,
> even", which is more complicated than simple 'round'.
>
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