On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Hans W Borchers <hwborch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a remark: "round-towards-+Inf" is not the same as > "round-away-from-zero" and > does not fulfill "round(-x) = -round(x)". > Right, I realize it wasn't clear from my email, but that was an argument against the current C-like round-away-from-zero behavior and for mathy round-to-inf behavior. > I am astonished that PARI/GP is rarely mentioned when comparing Julia to > other > scientific computing systems -- not even in the long list of issue #8750 > or on > the 'Gang of Forty' slide of the Vision talk at MIT. > I have to confess that I've never, before it being mentioned here, heard of PARI/GP.
