Tatsuo Ishii <is...@sraoss.co.jp> writes: >>> Can you please someone elaborate what's the meaning of "even" in >>> datatype.sgml?
>>>> representable values, in order to avoid a widespread bug where input >>>> routines do not properly respect the round-to-even rule.) This value will >> It does actually mean "even and odd". This kind of rounding is also >> called "Banker's Rounding". >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even > Oh, Thanks! The link is very helpful. I think actually the standard terminology is "round-to-nearest-even". regards, tom lane
