27 Oct
2008
27 Oct
'08
9:45 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Lennart Augustsson
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.
By the time I was in the Swedish school system that seems to have changed. I had never heard of this method of rounding before reading this thread :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe