There has been a long winding discussion on the German Forum.
IMHO this is not really relevant, as relying on the exact value of a
real number is erroneous, anyway. So a real number never can be
considered to *exactly* *be* 1.5, but just somewhere nearby, and hence
it's not legal to predict hat it is rounded to.
Moreover results of the discussion were:
- the way of rounding is defined by the CPU hardware, even old Turbo
Pascal executables do banker's rouding on modern hardware.
- SetRoundMode is not only dangerous, but does not help, anyway, as
there is no mode defining the "intuitive " "non-banker rouding" method.
- (some versions of) Turbo Pascal had a soft-real library that did
"intuitive" rounding.
-Michael
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