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From: ken AT rahul DOT net (Ken Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Bug in floor/ceil
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 11:01:08 -0500
Organization: California Advanced Software Tools
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References: <1995Dec2 DOT 084304 DOT 15106 AT frontier DOT tno DOT nl>
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In article <1995Dec2 DOT 084304 DOT 15106 AT frontier DOT tno DOT nl>,
antwerp AT tpd DOT tno DOT nl (Gert van Antwerpen) wrote:
>Hai folks,
>
>I found a problem in the floor/ceil of the emu386.dxe and libemu.a.
>The following program gives 3 times zero (0)!
>
>#include <math.h>
>
>main()
>{
>   printf("%g\n",floor(.1));
>   printf("%g\n",floor(.5));
>   printf("%g\n",floor(.9));
>}

Well, that's what floor does. Floor returns a floating point value that 
represents the largest integer that is less than or equal to its argument.
For any value v such that 0 < v < 0.9999999...., floor returns zero.
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