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Re: Specification error for Math.round

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Patricia Shanahan wrote:

> RobG wrote:
>> If x is an integer, then for simple rounding you are correct. But as
>> Patricia said, a common rounding algorithm is to round to the nearest
>> even number (sometimes called "bankers rounding") to attenuate
>> rounding inaccuracy.
> 
> It's perhaps worth emphasizing the fact that the ties go to nearest even
> style of rounding is the normal rounding mode in JavaScript arithmetic.
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^
That would be _ECMAScript_.¹  But you are oversimplifying, see ES 5.1 
§9.8.1.  One additional caveat here is that the numbers you *see* are only 
string representations of Number values.

BTW, your quoting style is suboptimal.  Omissions, if any, should be 
indicated at the same quotation level as the text from which text has been 
omitted.  `[...]' or (typographically correct) `[…]' should be used to 
indicate omission, to distinguish it from an ellipsis in the quoted text.


PointedEars
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   "Javascript" or "javascript" instead.  Sigh. [psf 10.1]
-- 
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee

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Specification error for Math.round RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2012-10-10 19:52 -0700
  Re: Specification error for Math.round Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-11 07:29 +0100
    Re: Specification error for Math.round Dr J R Stockton <reply1241@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-10-12 23:00 +0100
  Re: Specification error for Math.round Danny <dann90038@gmail.com> - 2012-10-11 13:16 -0700
    Re: Specification error for Math.round Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-12 00:14 +0100
    Re: Specification error for Math.round RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2012-10-11 21:46 -0700
      Re: Specification error for Math.round Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-12 08:28 +0100
        Re: Specification error for Math.round Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-13 22:14 +0200
          Re: Specification error for Math.round Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-13 21:45 +0100
            Re: Specification error for Math.round "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-10-13 23:59 +0200
        Re: Specification error for Math.round Dr J R Stockton <reply1241@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-10-13 19:31 +0100
      Re: Specification error for Math.round Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 11:09 +0000
  Re: Specification error for Math.round Dr J R Stockton <reply1241@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-10-12 22:48 +0100

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