Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why 'round' does not just round numbers ?

Ketil Malde wrote:

Janis Voigtlaender writes:

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If you round to odd instead of round to even, then 4.5 rounds to 5,

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Well, of course I did not learn to round to odd. I learned to round .5 to above, but not to do repeated rounding.

Since just about every floating point operation involves some sort of loss of precision, repeated rounding is a fact of life.

Of course. But that was not the point of the discussion... -- Dr. Janis Voigtlaender http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~voigt/ mailto:voigt@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de