From: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Round integer division
Date: 26 Jun 2010 13:09:05 GMT
Message-ID: <i04u5h$jc8$1@reversiblemaps.ath.cx> (raw)
References: <4C25334D.4040805@gmail.com>
On 2010-06-25, Lee Hachadoorian <lee.hachadoorian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it documented anywhere that floating-point numbers round
> "scientifically", that is 0.5 rounds to the nearest even number?
That's swiss rounding. And no, as I understand it documented that
most arithmetic) is platform specific.
Postgres is written in C and the relevant portions of the
C standards douments (and discussions thereof) give a good
picture of the functioning of postgres arithmetic.
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