> Yours is clearly incorrect lol. "Your software gives a different result to the one I expect, therefore its wrong."
You are aware that your first example (3.255) probably isn't being stored internally as a single. Just because computers work outside your understanding doesn't make them 'incorrect'. On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 2:15 PM Thomas Kurz <sqlite.2...@t-net.ruhr> wrote: > Sorry, but even Excel (which usually isn't very good at decimal math) > gives correct results: > > ROUND(3.255;2) --> 3.26 > ROUND(3.25499999999999;2) --> 3.25 > > Yours is clearly incorrect. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> > To: SQLite mailing list <sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org> > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019, 14:44:52 > Subject: [sqlite] round function inconsistent > > On 5/24/19, Jose Isaias Cabrera <jic...@outlook.com> wrote: > > > Dr. Hipp, how many more scenarios, where round gives the wrong answer, > > exist? Thanks. > > > Consider these two queries: > > SELECT round(3.255,2); > SELECT round(3.2549999999999998,2); > > Do you expect them to give different answers? > > If so, do you realize that 3.255 and 3.49999999999998 are in fact the > exact same floating point number? That number in (unambiguous) hex > notation is 0x1.a0a3d70a3d70ap+1. So how is it that you would expect > the round() function to return different answers for two cases where > it is given bit-for-bit identical inputs? How does it know which > answer to give? > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
