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Subject: Re: Rounding doubles to ints
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> From: Robin Johnson <robbat2 AT home DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 01:04:08 GMT
> 
> not neccesarily, say for example you have 
> 4.0, which, rounded off, will still be 4.0
> if you add .5 it will become 5.0 instead of 4.0

Did you actually try that?  If not, I suggest to try (and post the
program you use).

If you add 0.4, then (4.59 + 0.4) won't produce the right result (I'd
expect it to be rounded to 5, not 4).

My advice is just to use the library function, don't reinvent the
wheel.