(Janis, sorry for e-mailiing just for you on the first time.) On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Janis Voigtlaender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is of course true (and was the topic of heated discussion with my > fourth grade math teacher), but does not explain 2.5 -> 2.
If you round to odd instead of round to even, then 4.5 rounds to 5, which would may need rounding again and introduce double rounding errors. For a simple example, 2.45 -> 2.4 -> 2 2.45 -> 2.5 -> 3 The Wikipedia article that was linked in this thread talks about this problem as well. -- Felipe. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
