On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Tai Lee wrote:
> Why is ROUND_HALF_EVEN superior?
ROUND_HALF_EVEN is the standard when doing financial calculations, an extremely
common use of DecimalField.
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Why is ROUND_HALF_EVEN superior? Perhaps for statistics, where
rounding all halves up would skew results, but I guess not for most
other cases.
If the default rounding behaviour produces different results than a
regular calculator, common spreadsheet and accounting software or even
human (mentally
On 06/10/2011 02:45, Paul McMillan wrote:
.. (A) silent rounding issue:
when a decimal value is saved in db
its decimal digits exceeding decimal_places are rounded off using
.quantize(). Rounding defaults to ROUND_HALF_EVEN (python default).
There is no mention of this behavior in
