It does seem odd-I filed a bug on the MarkLogic side and we'll take a look.
In the mean time, as David pointed out, casting it to a double seems to work around it. -Danny From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Milowski Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 9:53 AM To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Simple Math Issue Testing other XQuery processors (e.g. Saxon 9.4 via XProc): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <p:declare-step xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc"; xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step"; version="1.0"> <p:output port="result"/> <p:xquery> <p:input port="source"> <p:empty/> </p:input> <p:input port="parameters"> <p:empty/> </p:input> <p:input port="query"> <p:inline> <c:query> element result { 180 div 2.5, 5 div 2.5 } </c:query> </p:inline> </p:input> </p:xquery> </p:declare-step> Output: <result>72 2</result> MarkLogic: <result>71.99999999999999601 1.999999999999999889</result> -- --Alex Milowski "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered." Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
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