https://github.com/fricas/fricas/issues/179

Le lun. 29 juil. 2024 à 10:50, Grégory Vanuxem <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> 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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