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operation of 'round' function


From: Ronan Waide
Subject: operation of 'round' function
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:23:29 +0000

This may be a bug, or may simply be a failure of understanding on my
part. However.

GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Mon Jul 30 2001
on stripples.devel.redhat.com

(round 0.5) = 0
(round 1.5) = 2
(round 2.5) = 2
(round 3.5) = 4
(round 4.5) = 4

and so forth. It appears to be rounding to the nearest /even/
integer. The docstring says:

"Return the nearest integer to ARG."

Which should have returned 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 above.

Cheers,
Waider.
-- 
Ronan Waide / Solaris Wrangler / euroConex Technologies Ltd.


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ronan.waide@euroconex.com (Ronan Waide) wrote:

> It appears to be rounding to the nearest /even/ integer.
> The docstring says:
>
> "Return the nearest integer to ARG."
>
> Which should have returned 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 above.

Your interpretation of the docstring is incorrect.  The docstring
actually says nothing about what should happen in the cases when
the fractional part is exactly 0.5.  The reason is of course that
in such cases the term "nearest" is ambiguous.  Both 2 and 3 are
equally near (and far) from 2.5.

Peter

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Now when I turn it on, it gets dark.



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