[Rd] round() doesnt (PR#1138)

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, David Brahm wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
>    I swear, bug.report() ate my message!  Apologies to all, esp. Peter who
> will once again have to clean up after my mess...
>
>    The bug report was supposed to say:
>
> R> round(100000/3, -2) - 33300
>    [1] -7.275958e-12
>
> I would have hoped for 0.  The problem seems to be specifically for negative
> "digits".
> 			-- David Brahm (brahm@alum.mit.edu)
>
> Version:
>  platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.6
>  arch = sparc
>  os = solaris2.6
>  system = sparc, solaris2.6
>  status =
>  major = 1
>  minor = 3.0

^^^^^^^^
I can duplicate this under Windows R1.3.0 but not Debian R1.3.1, so it may
have been fixed.  Looking at the changes to arithmetic.c I don't see why,
though.


	-thomas

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