[racket] Rounding

From: mike at goblin.punk.net (mike at goblin.punk.net)
Date: Sat Mar 16 21:26:13 EDT 2013

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:21:57AM -0400, Eric Nadeau wrote:
> Since when is round 0.5 not giving 1?!

I believe that this is standard in physics and engineering in order to avoid statistical bias.  For example, see the NIST "Guide for the Use of the International System of Units", section B.7.
(http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/rules.html)

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