[racket] Decimal rounding problem

But you don't have the problem of misrounding because of a conversion 
from octal to beinary before you start. 

-- hendrik

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:28:33PM +0100, Stephan Houben wrote:
> 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
> > k
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