[E-Lang] Operators #6: Multiplicative operators

[Ben Laurie]

"Mark S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> At 01:56 PM Tuesday 4/10/01, Bill Frantz wrote:
> >At 10:12 AM -0700 4/10/01, Mark S. Miller wrote:
> >[...]  So regarding float64s and
> >>IEEE, E conforms to "the deterministic subset of IEEE supported by standard
> >>pure Java".
> >>
> >>Is there any way in standard pure Java to control the rounding mode?
> >
> >The by now old Java Language Specification says that Java always uses
> >"round to nearest".  I think if you need to change the rounding mode, you
> >will have to write in another language.
> 
> I believe in the IEEE context, "round to nearest" actually means "round to
> even".

I don't understand what you mean by that - but 1 should round up, of
course (for the same reason 5 does in decimal).

Cheers,

Ben.

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