[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51515] sprintf not rounding correctly

[Andreas Weber]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #51515 (project octave):

Octave outputs the same here as a C snippet "printf ("%1.1g\n", 2.5);"
compiled with gcc would do.

See https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Rounding.html

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Round to nearest.

    This is the default mode. It should be used unless there is a specific
need for one of the others. In this mode results are rounded to the nearest
representable value. If the result is midway between two representable values,
the even representable is chosen. Even here means the lowest-order bit is
zero. This rounding mode prevents statistical bias and guarantees numeric
stability: round-off errors in a lengthy calculation will remain smaller than
half of FLT_EPSILON.
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Do you have a description how Matlab does rounding in fprintf/sprintf? Or is
it just because they've linked another C library?

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