This method, called *round-to-even, unbiased rounding*, *convergent rounding
*, or *statistician's rounding* avoids biasing results upwards. See the
relevant section in the Wikipedia article
Rounding<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round-to-even_method>;
.
-s
On Jan 2, 2008 1:44 PM, Holger Schulz <qdl at gmx.net> wrote:
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> Am 2008-01-02 um 17:48 schrieb Stavros Macrakis:
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> > round: nearest integer, preferring evens to odds for ties
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> Why is that defined this way?
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> Thanks.
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> hs
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