unclekiki (Kieran McCusker)
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- Registered on: 07/04/2016
- Last sign in: 07/11/2018
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Activity
07/12/2018
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07:53 AM Ruby Bug #12548: Rounding modes inconsistency between round versus sprintf
- Ok
How about listing them in the format
name ......... height (rounded to whole centimetre)
sprintf would seem a great choice for that but fails due to it's rounding choices. By the way, I noticed this in the first place because...
07/11/2018
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- It is a real bug, it's just that, as I have said before, the "fix" took the wrong direction. sprintf should behave like round (as it does, or at least did, in jruby with no apparent issues). Round even is a very specialised use case.
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02/19/2018
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- Hi again
After I raised this bug and saw the comment from matz I stopped watching assuming that sprintf would be "fixed" not that round would be changed instead. IEEE 754 is useful when you are taking them mean of a large number of ro...
07/05/2016
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- Having read a bit more I see that there are indeed multiple possible ways of handling tie-breaking i.e. when a value is n.5, but is it reasonable for two implementations in ruby core (sprintf and round) to use a different method? It's at...
07/04/2016
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- Hi
I've found this possible bug with `sprintf` in our production code, but it
seems very odd that no one has reported it so I'm doubting myself.
I've tested a few versions (CRuby 2.3.1 and 2.1.9) and it was present in
both.
To...