Steven Bethard wrote: > I'm not sure why you would have expected 2.62 for the latter when:: > > >>> 5.25 / 2 > 2.625
Round-to-nearest-even is a valid, and oft-recommended rounding mode for numbers exactly halfway between two round numbers. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
