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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: IE and IEE 754
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:04:48 +0100
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Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> writes:

> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:27:30 +0100, Ben Bacarisse
> <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>I think it must.  The ECMAScript specification imports IEEE 754's strict
>>rounding and representation rules.  The IEEE FP value closest to 123.45,
>>when multiplies by 100 must yield 12345 according to those rules.
>
>      Why?  What if the value that you have (and want) happens to be
> the value closest to 123.45?  When you multiply that value by 100,
> wouldn't you want 100 times the value instead of 12345?

Yes, but you won't get it.  You'll get the nearest floating point
number, which is 12345.  Am I missing your point?

-- 
Ben.