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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:44:57 +0900 (JST)
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Subject: Re: Bug in printf ?
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::Dealing with integers illustrates the matter more clearly. When
::the decimal value is exactly 0.5, then printf should round to the
::nearest *even* integer, as far as I know, so you should get

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your explanation. I didn't know, until now, that
rounding should be done to the "nearest *even* integer".
Need to learn every day. ;-)

::Now I realize that Cygwin's printf doesn't get it right, because

Wow, what a coincidence. ;-)

Anyway, thanks for Peter and DaveK for looking into the issue.

Thanks
  Haro
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