27 Oct
2008
27 Oct
'08
9:43 a.m.
Lennart Augustsson wrote:
I can't remember the method being called anything. It was just what we were being taught. With the obvious explanation that .5 is right in the middle so always going one way would introduce a bias. This was circa 1969.
Well, I wasn't serious about the "political" explanation. And yes, the "avoiding bias" explanation makes sense, but not the "this way of rounding makes repeated rounding safe" explanation. -- Dr. Janis Voigtlaender http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~voigt/ mailto:voigt@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de