On 12/28/2010 4:47 PM, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
"Float-to-string and string-to-float conversions are correctly rounded. The round() function is also now correctly rounded."
The second line was written to be parallel to the first, but the first is slightly ambiguous in that 'conversions' can refer to either process (not rounded, correctly or otherwise ;-) or result. However the parallelism does not does as 'round() function' is the instrument of the process and definitly not the result.
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I see. Shouldn't it say then "The round() function gives/produces/returns correctly rounded results now", instead of saying that the round function *is* correctly rounded? ISTM that the round function cannot be rounded (correctly or not):
In 2.7 "Float-to-string and string-to-float conversion results are correctly rounded, as are the results of the round() function."
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