On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:03:43AM -0700, Dick Moores wrote:
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> >Well, perhaps this is something for me to think about, but if you had asked
> >me to round 0.19945 to four decimal places, I would have told you the
> >answer
> >is 0.1994, i.e., the same answer that Python gives.
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> Is this because that rounding conforms to "unbiased rounding"? If so,
> then you won't like
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> >>> print round(0.19965, 4)
> 0.1997
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> (which rounds up to an odd number, 7)
Heh. You're right. I don't. If I get some time, I'll try to dig
through the Python source code to see what they're doing. Thanks.
- Mike
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