[racket] Decimal rounding problem

From: Stephan Houben (stephanh42 at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 29 14:28:33 EST 2012

In octal you have the same issue, how do you round octal 0.4 ?

No, we should be using an odd base, say base-5. Fingers and thumb of one
hand. No central digit to cause rounding ambiguity.

Stephan

Stephan Houben
Op 29 nov. 2012 20:02 schreef "Hendrik Boom" <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> het
volgende:

> All these problems that would have been avoided if we had just started
> out counting on our fingers instead of out fingers and thumbs!
>
> -- hendrik
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