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Re: Bug in std::floor?
On 14/11/17 13:29, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 13 November 2017 at 11:42, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 13/11/17 10:38, Mason wrote:
>>> On 09/11/2017 16:46, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>>
>>>> Actually, that's mainly a language design bug, which doesn't show
>>>> the error for 460 (which is representable exactly).
>>>
>>> It's not clear to me exactly /what/ you are calling a language design bug?
>>> And in what language? C? IEEE 754?> (AFAIK, C is pretty loose with the floating point spec.)
>>
>> This is C++. The problem is that std::cout << v doesn't print all of
>> the digits in v: ideally, it'd print the minimum number of digits such
>> that reading the number back would result in a double equal to v.
>
> It might be nice to have that as an option (maybe via an I/O
> manipulator like std::fixed) but even if it wasn't too late to change
> the default behaviour, most people probably want 1.1 to be printed as
> 1.1 even though it's really something different.
1.1 would still print as 1.1. 4.6 * 100 would print as
459.99999999999994, because that's the truth.
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Andrew Haley
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Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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