On Friday, 26 December 2014 06:14:34 UTC-6, Hans W Borchers wrote: > > I started this thread long time ago with a question about rounding rules > and the IEEE floating point standard. I felt like being criticized for even > thinking Julia could follow the "round-to-even" rule. Now I learn that > Julia version 0.4 will apply this rule (as default?). >
I apologise if you felt I was being critical, that was not at all my intention. These are complicated issues, and I don't claim to have all the solutions. In fact, we still have yet to resolve the problem with the digits argument: I have just opened an issue explaining the problem here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9464 Contributions to the discussion are certainly welcome. -simon
