[Haskell-cafe] Why 'round' does not just round numbers ?

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Mon Oct 27 09:45:57 EDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Lennart Augustsson
<lennart at augustsson.net> wrote:
> I can't remember the method being called anything.
> It was just what we were being taught.  With the obvious explanation
> that .5 is right in the middle so always going one way would introduce
> a bias.  This was circa 1969.

By the time I was in the Swedish school system that seems to have
changed.  I had never heard of this method of rounding before reading
this thread :-)

/M

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