RE: [Qexo-general] Problem with division

[Seshukumar Venkata Adiraju]

Thanks,

How do I round off the result to specific decimal places?

Seshu Kumar Adiraju
SETLabs, Infosys Technologies Limited
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Per Bothner [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:56 PM
To: Seshukumar Venkata Adiraju
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Subject: Re: [Qexo-general] Problem with division

Seshukumar Venkata Adiraju wrote:
> The Expression
> 
> (($num), "/", $den ,"=", ($num div $den))
> 
>  
> 
> evaluates to
> 
>  
> 
> 14704478/2425000=7352239/1212500

> Why is this happening?

I took some shortcurs when implementing Qexo arithmetic,
basically using Scheme arithmetic.  And Scheme provides
exact rational arithmetic.

As a work-around, you could add 0.0 or multiply by 1.0
to force the result to floating-point.
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