Re: floating-point abuse in 2.1.113

[Rogier Wolff]

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > > -	frequency = (frequency / 16.0) * 100;	/* massage data a bit */
> > > +	frequency = (frequency * 100) / 16;	/* massage data a bit */
> > 
> > Shouldn't these be rounded, i.e.
> > 
> > 	frequency = (frequency * 100 + 8) / 16;
> 
> No, there is no rounding in the original calculation:

Yes, thank you, most of us know C. 

Question stands: Shouldn't these be rounded?

Someone might have forgotten the round operation, and as we're looking
at the code right now, lets make sure we get it right....

					Roger.

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