It's well known from numerical analysis that you can achieve the best
general behavior by rounding to even in "half" the cases, and rounding
to odd in "half" the cases. It's usually deterministic by looking at
the digit to the right of the round point.
Regards,
John A. De Goes
N-BRAIN, Inc.
http://www.n-brain.net
[n minds are better than n-1]
On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Jules Bean wrote:
This behaviour is not what I expect after reading the description at
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/
Prelude.html#v:round
. Given that this behaviour has caused a bit of confusion I think a
change to the documention might be in order.
The authority here is the report which says
"round x returns the nearest integer to x, the even integer if x is
equidistant between two integers."
However I agree the haddock ought to mirror the report.
Jules
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