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Bug 1261450 - wrong rounding of some numbers
Summary: wrong rounding of some numbers
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: bash
Version: 7.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ondrej Oprala
QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-09 11:03 UTC by Martin Kyral
Modified: 2016-02-01 02:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-09-09 11:57:22 UTC
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Description Martin Kyral 2015-09-09 11:03:43 UTC 
Description of problem:
bash doesn't round numbers like 0.5, 2.5, 4.5... correctly. Interestingly, 1.5, 3.5 and so on are OK. See the snapshot from the test: 

:: [   LOG    ] :: printf is a shell builtin
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 0.49 (Assert: '"0"' should equal '"0"')
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Rounding 0.5 (Assert: '"0"' should equal '"1"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 0.51 (Assert: '"1"' should equal '"1"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 0.9 (Assert: '"1"' should equal '"1"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 1.01 (Assert: '"1"' should equal '"1"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 1.5 (Assert: '"2"' should equal '"2"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 1.9 (Assert: '"2"' should equal '"2"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 4.49 (Assert: '"4"' should equal '"4"')
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Rounding 4.50 (Assert: '"4"' should equal '"5"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 4.51 (Assert: '"5"' should equal '"5"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 5.01 (Assert: '"5"' should equal '"5"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 9.9999 (Assert: '"10"' should equal '"10"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 10 (Assert: '"10"' should equal '"10"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 10.0001 (Assert: '"10"' should equal '"10"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 1.50 (Assert: '"2"' should equal '"2"')
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Rounding 2.50 (Assert: '"2"' should equal '"3"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 3.50 (Assert: '"4"' should equal '"4"')
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Rounding 4.50 (Assert: '"4"' should equal '"5"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 5.50 (Assert: '"6"' should equal '"6"')
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Rounding 6.50 (Assert: '"6"' should equal '"7"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 7.50 (Assert: '"8"' should equal '"8"')
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Rounding 8.50 (Assert: '"8"' should equal '"9"')
:: [   PASS   ] :: Rounding 9.50 (Assert: '"10"' should equal '"10"')
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Rounding 10.50 (Assert: '"10"' should equal '"11"')

The reproducer is simple:

[0 root@qeos-27 test]# LANG=C bash -c 'printf "%0.f\n" 0.5'
0
[0 root@qeos-27 test]# LANG=C ksh -c 'printf "%0.f\n" 0.5'
1
[0 root@qeos-27 test]#



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash-4.2.46-19.el7

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. LANG=C bash -c 'printf "%0.f\n" 0.5'
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Actual results:
0


Expected results:
1


Additional info:
Comment 1 Ondrej Oprala 2015-09-09 11:57:22 UTC 
Hi, this is called "rounding to even". It is extremely well explained here [1] (see the last example for a case similar to your reproducer) and
it's how the glibc printf (which bash calls) is implemented. Ksh usually handles math stuff with its own library and probably follows a different set of rules, you'll have to ping Michal about that. The standalone printf binary from coreutils also follows the same rules bash does.

[1] http://linuxgazette.net/144/misc/lg/a_question_of_rounding_in_issue_143.html
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