On Oct 18, 2004, at 7:19 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: > Do you think the 10000 makes it more convincing? :-) Obviously! :) No, I wasn't fully paying attention to this thread, but did see the talk about alternating rounding. I didn't know if it applied to the sprintf case, so, just in case it was a pseudo-random result I was checking if perhaps it varied between 0/1. > Now, is this due to the Ruby version or rather the libC version (I > tested > with cygwin)? Dunno; I simply offer my data point for observation, and will let others figger out the discrepancy.