On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Janis Voigtlaender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, of course I did not learn to round to odd. I learned to round .5 > to above, but not to do repeated rounding.
Nobody rounds in passes, of course =). I was talking about two successive rounds. > In fact, by your explanation, you would have: > > 3.46 -> 3.5 -> 4 > > Which is most odd. 3.46 is definitely closer to 3 than to 4. If you're doing a double rounding, then this error will always happen. Round to even avoids this error when the last digit was a 5, which is good. -- Felipe. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
