[racket] Rounding

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Robby



On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Eric Nadeau <nado18 at 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
>
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