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math/big: Rat.FloatString does not document what rounding method it uses #11523

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tv42 opened this issue Jul 2, 2015 · 2 comments
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math/big: Rat.FloatString does not document what rounding method it uses #11523

tv42 opened this issue Jul 2, 2015 · 2 comments
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tv42 commented Jul 2, 2015

This came up while somebody was talking about using it for currency math.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Tie-breaking
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It's rounding to nearest even but it should be documented.

@robpike robpike added this to the Go1.5 milestone Jul 3, 2015
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This was fixed a while back. The (now deleted) additional CL was incorrectly referring to this issue.

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