Re^2: Rounding off numbers

swampyankee,
There are actually defined standards for rounding; to be absolutely pedantic, numbers which are...

Really? Where? I am not saying that because I don't believe you but because I am only familiar with rounding algorithms - not any standards. Do you have any reference material?

I would have thought any standard would have been referenced in this rounding algorithm article or in the Wikipedia entry.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^3: Rounding off numbers by swampyankee (Parson) on Apr 20, 2006 at 22:11 UTC
Try this NIST pdf (although I seem to have reversed their rounding rules, which are "round to even" from the ones I remembered which were "round to odd". Ah, daily my memory more and more remembers a steel sieve). emc "Being forced to write comments actually improves code, because it is easier to fix a crock than to explain it. " —G. Steele	[reply]
Re^3: Rounding off numbers by gloryhack (Deacon) on Apr 20, 2006 at 18:58 UTC
It is in a Wikipedia entry, just not the one you found. :-)	[reply]
Re^4: Rounding off numbers by johngg (Canon) on Apr 20, 2006 at 20:18 UTC
That's not the maths I learnt at school. It's not very PC either, being unfair to odd numbers :-)	[reply]
Re^4: Rounding off numbers by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Apr 20, 2006 at 20:41 UTC
gloryhack, No, that actually contradicts spirtway who said rounded to odd (not even). Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re^5: Rounding off numbers by gloryhack (Deacon) on Apr 21, 2006 at 15:05 UTC
Very sound point. Oops.	[reply]