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Robby On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Eric Nadeau <nad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The point of rounding is coming up with the best possible integer > approximation for a decimal and this nearest even number rule does not > qualify. This "logic" was used by my grandparents' generation because odd > numbers were seen as less pure than even ones. > > I'm ditching Scheme altogether based on this, but thanks all for the good > explanations, it can be confirmed by running the following (I thought it > was only a fluke with 0.5): > > (round 0.5) (round 1.5) (round 2.5) (round 3.5) > > On 16-Mar-2013, at 20:31, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote: > > >> Since when is round 0.5 not giving 1?! > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even > > > > --- nadeem > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >
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