Guido> Rounding 0.5 to 0 is a new fad, called round-to-even, or
Guido> statistician's rounding. Read
Guido> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding . It's a standard, and
Guido> more correct when doing statistical calculations. That's why
Guido> we've chosen it for Python 3.0. But it should not bleed into
Guido> Python 2.6.
Thanks for the pointer. Given that it's been an ASTM standard since 1940
and apparently in fairly common use since the early 1900s, I wonder why it's
not been more widely used in the past in programming languages.
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