Re: number() floated?
Laurence Rowe <[email protected]>
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On 16 December 2011 17:06, Konrad Korzeniowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm using 1.1.26-6 version of libxslt (Debian Lenny), and cannot find any > explanation regarding described below behaviour. > > I got following simple xslt file: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" > xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'> > <xsl:template match="/"> > <xsl:value-of select="number('8.95')"/> > </xsl:template> > </xsl:stylesheet> > > > running xsltproc with this xsl against any xml gives: > 8.949999999999999 > > Is this expected? Shouldn't this be 8.85? > > Thanks for any explanation. Not all decimals may be exactly represented in binary floating point. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Representable_numbers.2C_conversion_and_rounding Laurence