Fabian Cenedese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>be. You have 2 choices: try and match their exact algorithm (v. hard >>w/o reverse engineering) or use the dutch rounding method (this makes >>more sense IMO). > >I couldn't find anything about "Dutch rounding". Isn't rounding exactly >defined? 0.1-0.4 round down -> 0.0, 0.5-0.9 round up -> 1.0?
I would think "Dutch rounding" works always up if you owe a sum and always down if you get the money ;-). Honestly though, before the Euro, prices in supermarkets were in cents and added up to the cent but the total amount was rounded up to the next 5 cents. Rolf Kalbermatter <Happening to be a swiss-dutch>
