By the way, the more "usual" method of rounding *is* used when rounding occurs as a result of a format-string conversion, which results in such surprising output:
Console.WriteLine("{0:n0}", 2.5 ); // prints 3 Console.WriteLine( Math.Round(2.5) ); // prints 2 On Monday 09 February 2004 1:39 pm, Tom Cabanski wrote: > In the science disciplines, n.5 is rounded to the nearest even integer > (e.g. 1.5 rounds to 2, 2.5 rounds to 3 and 3.5 rounds to 4). If you > think about it, that is actually more accurate that always rounding as > .5 is exactly in the middle and we should round up about half the time > and down the other half of the time. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list