From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Floating point modulus - the "why not"
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:18:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150113161848.GC12079@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150113101016.05d6c2a8@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On 2015-01-13 10:10:16 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:38:52 -0800
> Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> > I think we did the right thing, but just as a counter-point:
> >
> > torch% print $(( 91 % 13 ))
> > 0
> > torch% print $(( 9.1 % 1.3 ))
> > 1.2999999999999994
>
> That's the same problem with floating point division as everywhere else;
> if you need to round it, you need to decide what you're rounding to and
> add half of that before you truncate downwards. I don't think that's a
> fundamentally new effect in this one case.
The problem actually comes from the decimal to binary conversions,
not with the division (or modulo) itself: 9.1 and 1.3 are not exactly
representable. While 91 is a multiple of 13, 9.1 converted to binary
is not a multiple of 1.3 converted to binary.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-13 5:38 Bart Schaefer
2015-01-13 10:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-13 16:18 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2015-01-13 16:57 ` Bart Schaefer
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