27 Oct
2008
27 Oct
'08
7:14 a.m.
Janis Voigtlaender
If you round to odd instead of round to even, then 4.5 rounds to 5,
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. Or use rationals. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants