Re: Rounding??

[Phillip J Shelton <shelton11 dingoblue net au>]

Nicholas Lee wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:18:03PM +0200, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> > [Nicholas Lee]
> >
> > >   (*) In fact its an inconsistent bug, since things like 3.555 round
> > >   correctly at all dp, but 3.375 doesnt a 2 dp.
> >
> > Correct rounding is difficult.  If a value falls exactly between the
> > two candidates, it should choose the candidate which is _even_.
>
> I always thought than even given that 5 is equal distance from either 0
> or 10, that it was conventional to round up.  Not create some
> complication even/odd thing which would certainly be annoying say in the
> middle of some measure theory. ;)

An obvious place to have an option for either way.