Re: [Tutor] Fw: About the Round Function

2016-04-02 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Nacir Bouali writes: > >> My students and I are interested in knowing the rationale behind >> Python's choice of the Banker's rounding algorithm to be the default >> rounding algorithm in the third

Re: [Tutor] Fw: About the Round Function

2016-04-01 Thread Ben Finney
Nacir Bouali writes: > My students and I are interested in knowing the rationale behind > Python's choice of the Banker's rounding algorithm to be the default > rounding algorithm in the third release of Python. Can you provide a link to the Python documentation for this? The

Re: [Tutor] Fw: About the Round Function

2016-04-01 Thread Danny Yoo
>My students and I are interested in knowing the rationale behind Python's >choice of the Banker's rounding algorithm to be the default rounding >algorithm in the third release of Python. To be specific: your question is on the toplevel round() function.

Re: [Tutor] Fw: About the Round Function

2016-04-01 Thread Mark Lawrence via Tutor
On 01/04/2016 20:46, Nacir Bouali wrote: -Forwarded by Nacir Bouali/sse/stud/aui/ma on 04/01/2016 08:46PM - To: tutor@python.org From: Nacir Bouali/sse/stud/aui/ma Date: 11/14/2015 08:21PM Subject: About the Round Function Dear Python Tutor(s), My students

[Tutor] Fw: About the Round Function

2016-04-01 Thread Nacir Bouali
-Forwarded by Nacir Bouali/sse/stud/aui/ma on 04/01/2016 08:46PM - To: tutor@python.org From: Nacir Bouali/sse/stud/aui/ma Date: 11/14/2015 08:21PM Subject: About the Round Function Dear Python Tutor(s), My students and I are interested in knowing the rationale behind