Timeline for Why round to even integers?
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| Jul 26, 2015 at 16:30 | comment | added | David G |
I've often thought Mathematica should have an option, e.g. Direction $\rightarrow$ {"HalfDown","HalfUp","HalfEven","HalfOdd","Stochastic"} etc.
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| Apr 12, 2013 at 0:27 | history | edited | J. M.'s missing motivation♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Mar 25, 2012 at 12:51 | history | suggested | F'x | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2012 at 4:36 | comment | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | That's a nice property, but rounding away-from-zero does has the same property, and is more intuitive. I'm pretty sure the true reason is Mr. Wizard's answer. | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 0:26 | vote | accept | wxffles | ||
| Feb 22, 2012 at 0:19 | comment | added | Ted Ersek | Besides that rounding to even ensures you still have an integer if you divide the rounded result by two later on. Chemist normally round to even when measurements and computations are rounded to the nearest 0.001 and stuff like that. | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 22:51 | history | answered | Per Alexandersson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |