On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Lennart Augustsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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
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