[Shootout-list] floating point rounding

[Daniel South]

Joel Hoffman wrote:
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| Well, that's not really a general solution but it would solve this
| specific problem. Simply printing the count as an integer would
| resolve it entirely.

Agreed.

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| Try this with gcc to see what I mean. It is definitely NOT rounding
| toward even numbers, else 0.495 and 0.505 would both round to 0.5. But
| 0.495 is only approximately represented as 0.494999999999....
|
Yes, that is a common problem with fp. As the binary rep of 0.495 is 
just a shade smaller, when it rounds it does so correctly. That is it 
rounds down to 0.49 as it is smaller than 0.495. Isn't fp maths fun :-)

Daniel South