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Article #1373Re: Questions about NCEG
From: Andrew P. Mullhaupt
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 1990 15:00
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 1990 15:00
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In article <15576@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: | >"If the scaled value is in the range of representable values (for its | >type) the result is either the nearest representable value, or the | >larger or smaller representable value immediately adjacent to the | >nearest representable value, chosen in an implementation-defined manner." | Does anyone else think this word choice is strange? I can understand It looks to me like the standard (bless its soul) is making provision for stable rounding, (see also banker's rounding). See Knuth for details. Later, Andrew Mullhaupt
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