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- From: kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Rounding Rules
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.081407.9667@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 08:14:07 -0600
- References: <1992Dec20.003018.14325@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1992Dec23.140148.21009@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1993Jan4.142226.9639@iscsvax.uni.edu>
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- Good morning,
-
- In article <1993Jan4.142226.9639@iscsvax.uni.edu>, kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- > My personal favorite rounding rule is to round anything that has {0,1,2,3,4} in
- > the "rounding place" "down" and anything that has {5,6,7,8,9} "up". So as in
- > the previous example, 1.13500 would be rounded to 1.14 and 1.14500 would be
- > rounded to 1.15.
- >
- > To this my teachers always gasped that this method was biased, and no amount of
- > pursuasion using the above-mentioned sets could pursuade them.
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- Thank you all for letting me know I was wrong and why and especially for doing
- it nicely. Have a great day!
-
- jim
-