On 06/26/10 17:09, wrote:
On 2010-06-25, Lee Hachadoorian<lee.hachadoor...@gmail.com> wrote:
Is it documented anywhere that floating-point numbers round
"scientifically", that is 0.5 rounds to the nearest even number?
That's swiss rounding. And no, as I understand it documented that
most arithmetic) is platform specific.
Postgres is written in C and the relevant portions of the
C standards douments (and discussions thereof) give a good
picture of the functioning of postgres arithmetic.
IT IS REALLY SAD !
the round(Numeric) does not behave as Math science prescribes :(
Shame on PostgresQL !
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