Perl help
Kevin D. Clark
kclark at CetaceanNetworks.com
Tue Jul 22 17:31:30 EDT 2003
Stephen Ryan <stephen.p.ryan at dartmouth.edu> writes:
> Aha! Google for "round to even" -- it's an IEEE floating point
> computation rule.
Note that many systems *can* do IEEE floating point, but by default
don't, since using the native floating point implementation can yield
better performance.
Regards,
--kevin
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