That won't work for accounting: you always need to round up.

No, it won't work for maths, but it *will* work for accounting. I think it was merlyn who told me sprintf's rounding was called "Banker's rounding" and showed me why it was important. Google has a lot of information about this phenomenon. In short: halves are rounded towards the nearest even integer, and that solves a lot of problems.

I don't know about international accounting differences, but I don't think biasing rounding up is a good thing to do.

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