#7802: Mention that RNDN is the "ties toward even" version in RealField
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Reporter: jason | Owner: mvngu
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.3.1
Component: documentation | Keywords:
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The IEEE754 standard has two versions of "round to nearest". It appears
that ours is the "ties toward even" version (see http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-
current/mpfr.html#MPFR-Basics). We ought to mention this in the docs to
RealField when it talks about the rounding modes.
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