<div dir="ltr">Racket is not Scheme. Please do not let our decisions influence your opinion of other languages. Go try Scheme for real.<div><br></div><div style>Robby</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Eric Nadeau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nado18@gmail.com" target="_blank">nado18@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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):<br> <br> (round 0.5) (round 1.5) (round 2.5) (round 3.5)<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> On 16-Mar-2013, at 20:31, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote:<br> <br> >> Since when is round 0.5 not giving 1?!<br> ><br> > <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even</a><br> ><br> > --- nadeem<br> <br> <br> ____________________<br> Racket Users list:<br> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>