Formatting Column of Times

Dom mcdomi at free.fr
Wed Sep 7 15:20:09 EDT 2005


Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:

> The UK rules on currency conversion required that for such "midway" 
> values you should always round to the even valued adjacent value (e.g.
> 0.125 -> 0.12, 0.135 -> 0.14) - which had the advantage of balancing out
> the rounding amounts over a large enough set of values.

I was learned this as "scientific rounding", opposed to "commercial
rounding" ;-)
this is equally important in accounting, and in scientific studies...


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Revolutionario




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