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- Subject: Re: Rounding Rules
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.204719.16970@massey.ac.nz>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 20:47:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.003018.14325@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <LOTTO.92Dec21062820@math.math.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <LOTTO.92Dec21062820@math.math.berkeley.edu>, lotto@math.berkeley.edu (Ben Lotto) writes:
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- > I was told way back in my undergraduate days that one should generally
- > "round to evens." Someone recently explained the rationale for this
- > as follows. Suppose we start with 1.49 and round in the traditional
- > manner twice. First we would round to 1.5 and then to 2. On the
- > other hand, if we round just once we get 1. Rounding to evens
- > prevents us from getting different answers.
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- Thanks, I always wondered.
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- I just have one little problem, what about double rounding of 2.51?
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