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minus-squareFizzyOrangelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoThat is default IEEE behaviour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Rounding_half_to_even This is the default rounding mode used in IEEE 754 operations for results in binary floating-point formats. Though it’s definitely a bad default because it’s so surprising. Javascript and Rust do not do this. Not really anything to do with determinism though.
That is default IEEE behaviour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Rounding_half_to_even
Though it’s definitely a bad default because it’s so surprising. Javascript and Rust do not do this.
Not really anything to do with determinism though.