I put 4.1m bushels on market but game rounded it to 4,099,999 Bushels.

server is FFA.

interesting; could be part of the RAM issue; working on a way to solve that without taking EE down.

Don't think it's code though.

only 1 country got that weird rounding.

This isn't actually a bug, but more to do with how computers store numbers. The number "4.1" cannot be stored exactly because it cannot be calculated as an exact power of 2 (whereas 0.5 = 2^(-1) or 1.5 (= 2^0 + 2^(-1)) can be). So the "4.1" string is first converted into a double, which stores it as 4.09999999999999964472863211995e0. To multiply by 1m, the integer is first promoted to a float from 1000000 to 1e6, so the 2 operands are of the same type. Multiplying by 1e6 (1 million) gives 4.09999999999999953433871269226e6 which when converted to an integer is 4099999. Conversion to integers (whether explicit or implicit) is a "round towards zero" operation where the decimal part is truncated, it is not the same as "round towards nearest integer" which is implemented as (int)(x+0.5) for positive numbers and (int)(x-0.5) for negative numbers.

personally, i'ma take his word for it :P

6.3m and others between 3 and 6.3 were successfully put on market w/o rounding.

*kicks xin* stop posting those weird formulas.

Please explain that again, but this time, use the actual number, 4100000. Not 4.1, lol.

I have occasions where my $ were like 15,234,235.66666667. Makes me look rich, except thats a . not ,

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/...1/IMG-20131004-WA0016.jpg

I can't do that, because the user explicitly typed in "4.1m" in the textbox, which means the number that the computer has to interpret is "4.1", followed by a "m".

Because of the way computers store numbers, 4.1 is really stored as 4.09999999999999964472863211995. After multiplying by 1m and rounding down the result of the multiplication _towards_ 0, this becomes a final value of 4099999.

Is this now simple enough to understand? Basically, numbers with decimal parts cannot be stored _exactly_, unless it can be decomposed and added up by fractional powers of 2. (i.e, 0.5, 0.25, 0.125, etc). Obviously, if the user actually typed in "4100000" instead of "4.1m", this wouldn't be a problem.

Wait, what? You can type "4.1m" on the market instead of having to type out "4100000"?

If that is true, I never knew that shortcut.

Yep. You can also use "k" to multiply by 1000. Works in almost any EE textbox that accepts numbers.

Wow that's amazing, I never knew that before either. I remember in BRE you could do it, you press M or K and the right number of zeros would just pop up. That's cool.

5.1m bushels went to market as 5.1m but 4.1m went as 4.099,999 bushels so why 5.1 doesn't get rounded? or 6.3 or 5.5 or .....

twice 1 country spent 1 buck less than others when buying bushels, 1st time then 10m and then 3m.