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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting printf (awk,perl,shell) float rounding issue Post 302715297 by Don Cragun on Sunday 14th of October 2012 11:39:52 AM
Old 10-14-2012
There are some statistics books that recommend rounding even values down (4.5 -> 4) and odd values up (5.5 -> 6) assuming that doing so will produce sums of rounded numbers closer to the value of the sums of the unrounded values. But I doubt that ksh is trying to provide that capability. I would guess that this could easily be caused by some programs using float, others using double, and still others using long double and having the process of converting 4.5 to the closest value in those formats sitting on opposite sides of the not quite exact value 4.5 representable in the various formats.
 

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RINT(3) 						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						   RINT(3)

NAME
rint, lrint, llrint -- round to integral value SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h> double rint(double x); long double rintl(long double x); float rintf(float x); long int lrint(double x); long int lrintl(long double x); long int lrintf(float x); long long int llrint(double x); long long int llrintl(long double x); long long int llrintf(float x); DESCRIPTION
The rint() functions return the integral value nearest to x (according to the prevailing rounding mode) in floating-point format. The lrint() and llrint() functions return the integral value nearest to x (according to the prevailing rounding mode) in the return formats specified. If the rounded value is outside the range of the return type, the numeric result is unspecified and the "invalid" floating-point exception is raised. A range error may occur if the magnitude of x is too large. SPECIAL VALUES
rint(+-0) returns +-0 for all rounding modes. rint(+-infinity) returns +-infinity for all rounding modes. All these functions raise the "inexact" floating-point exception if the result differs in value from the argument (except when they raise some other floating-point exception, such as "invalid"). NOTE
The rinttol() function is deprecated. Please use the C99 function lrint() instead. SEE ALSO
abs(3), fabs(3), ceil(3), floor(3), math(3) STANDARDS
The rint() , lrint() , and llrint() functions conform to ISO/IEC 9899:2011. BSD
July 02, 2008 BSD
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