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Subject: Re: Saxon Div Issue
From: "G. Ken Holman g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:57:03 -0000

At 2015-01-19 15:46 +0000, Mailing Lists Mail daktapaal@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have a value 9.88 , I use the div to do an operation

Pseudo code:
var num = 9.88
var result = $num div 100
I expect 0.0988 .. I get 0.09880000000000001

I am using Saxon-EE-9.5.1-5.jar

What is happening?

What is happening is that doing the arithmetic with the binary representations of 9.88 and 100 create a result in binary that when precisely converted to decimal give you the result you see.

As Martin suggests, if you are using XSLT 2 then you can use decimal representations of your values and do arithmetic with those.

I hope this helps understand the issue.

. . . . . . Ken

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- Mailing Lists Mail daktapaal@xxxxxxxxx - 19 Jan 2015 15:46:32 -0000
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