On 5 April 2016 at 14:49, Tim Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > The default behavior of decimal rounding is ROUND_HALF_EVEN (to nearest with > ties going to nearest even integer). There's a proposal to change this to > cast floats to string and then use ROUND_HALF_UP to match the value of > strings [0][1]. Do you have any concerns about this? Is it something we > should even care about?
Am I reading it wrong, or the ticket/patch assume that the "correct" rounding is ROUND_HALF_UP? In my experience, ROUND_HALF_EVEN produces less accumulated error after a string of operations. -- Javier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAFkDaoTv3T5PikjLvddX6W3dmyY48qo7tqEwpzYQCpjRv_R2Hg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
