* Thus wrote Martin Geisler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> My PHP manual (from a Debian package) has the following note on the
> page for round():
> 
> Caution
> 
>   When rounding on exact halves round() rounds down on evens and up on
>   odds. If you want to always force it in one direction on a .5 (or
>   .05 in your case) add or substract a tiny fuzz factor. The reason
>   behind rounding half the values down and the other half up is to
>   avoid the classical banking problem where if you always rounded down
>   you would be stealing money from your customers, or if you always
>   rounded up you would end up over time losing money. By averaging it
>   out through evens and odds you statistically break even.

This is a documentation error. And is not on the current
documentation.

Curt
-- 
"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."

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