On Jan 4, 2008 9:25 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guido> Rounding 0.5 to 0 is a new fad, called round-to-even, or > Guido> statistician's rounding. Read > Guido> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding . It's a standard, and > Guido> more correct when doing statistical calculations. That's why > Guido> we've chosen it for Python 3.0. But it should not bleed into > Guido> Python 2.6. > > Thanks for the pointer. Given that it's been an ASTM standard since 1940 > and apparently in fairly common use since the early 1900s, I wonder why it's > not been more widely used in the past in programming languages.
Because programming language designers rarely are statisticians? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
