Re: Comment about IEEE floating-point rounding... (was: Setting Float Precision in Lua.c)

[Sergey Zakharchenko <doublef.mobile@...>]

Hello,

I'm sorry to interrupt the number-theoretic discussion but these seem way off:

> Lua 5.1.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> > print(1e97 % 97)
> -8.8928324534259e+79

> Lua 5.2.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> > print(1e97 % 97)
> -8.8928324534259e+79

I get 0 on all platforms I can test Lua 5.[12] on, which is of course as bad as 3 but not *this* bad. Could any patches you use have affected this?

Best regards,

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DoubleF