At 01:53 PM 3/15/2003, Rashid Nassar wrote: >It may be my lack of unerstanding, but round() seems to me to give >inconsistent results when rounding 5s as in the following examples?
Not really. Floating point numbers can't be precisely represented in binary and so the internal representation of 1.5 might be very different from what you think it is. If you've done any programming at all, this is one of the first lessons you learn about "real" numbers and computers.
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