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

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