andrel nous illumina en ce 2008-06-29 18:32 -->

> yes (except perhaps on very old equipment that had a sign bit and not 
> 2s-complement), but that does not stop people from expecting that
> floor(-x+.5)==-floor(x+.5) everywhere.

That expectation come from the fact that many peoples considere 0 to be smaler 
than -1, whitch is false. Many peoples have the tendency of ignoring the sign 
when quickly comparing values, only concidering the absolute value instead of 
the real one.


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Alain
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