Date:	Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:46:42 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com
cc:	myskin AT inp DOT nsk DOT su, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: double-->int: What's wrong here?
In-Reply-To:	<9702061427.AA26252@quasar.bloomberg.com >
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970206164519.5706D-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Thu, 6 Feb 1997 kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com wrote:

> to the limit of a double's precision (the next 5 digits would 86000 in the 
> 80bit internal x87 representation.  There is no imprecision in this calculation
> due to binary floating point effects and adding 0.5 will not change the results.

Are you sure?  Did you run that small test program with and without + 0.5?
If not, please do.  I'm pretty sure it will help.

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