Neef wrote:
>@ROUND function:
>---------------
>In early versions of AppleWorks-A2 ("Real" AppleWorks), the
>programmers did a statistical search and found that the commonly used
>"5/4 round-off" was really not 100% fair for values with only a 5
>following the round-off digit. So they devised an algorithm that
>rounded-up if the digit preceeding the 5 was an even number, and
>rounded-down if it was an odd number.
The above seems to imply (to me) that the AppleWorks programmers came up
with the idea for the "Round to Even" rule, but it has been in use in
the scientific community since before AppleWorks was first published.
For example, I have a USEPA publication dating to 1979 which describes
this rounding convention.
It is unusual to find the "Round to Even" rule implemented in a
commercial 'desktop' software package, however.
--
Don V. Zahniser
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