Nope, if it's less than five it stays the same.
3.973 would round to 3.97 but 3.976 should round to 3.98
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - May 19, 2005 6:34:23 am PDT #5489 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Dana - May 19, 2005 6:36:14 am PDT #5490 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
There is an actual rule of rounding that if you are rounding from a 5 you go to the even number.
Yeah, that's my feeling too, but then there are websites out there that say "don't round up! no matter what!" which offends my second-grade self.
Thanks for all the opinions. I went with 3.97 this round, but we're also bugging the academic people we know for their take on it.
And I'm hitting the road for New Orleans, baby!
Kat - May 19, 2005 6:37:31 am PDT #5491 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse, where were you in 2nd grade? you didn't learn that rule?
bon bon - May 19, 2005 6:37:54 am PDT #5492 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
OK, waitaminnit here. Rounding up from five is not common knowledge?
xpost with Kat
Jesse - May 19, 2005 6:38:24 am PDT #5493 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nope, if it's less than five it stays the same.
Sorry, I meant if you're rounding from 5. So 135 would become 140, but 125 would become 120.
Nilly - May 19, 2005 6:38:28 am PDT #5494 of 10001
Swouncing
Oh, and the reason I poked my head in this thread in the first place: according to the Buffista Calendar, May 19, 1997 was the founding day of the first Buffy thread in TT.
Dana - May 19, 2005 6:38:34 am PDT #5495 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Also, shrift, Yahoo Mail is being a phenomenal bitch, so, in short:
Yeah, I figured. I went ahead with the cheaper flight. Your plan sounds good. If you get a chance, go ahead and get the room for Thurs-Sunday, and we can adjust later if necessary.
-t - May 19, 2005 6:39:12 am PDT #5496 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Really? You don't always round up? Huh.
Technically, no, 3.965 would round to 3.96.
amych - May 19, 2005 6:39:16 am PDT #5497 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Rounding up from five is not common knowledge?
Rounding up from five is common knowledge where I went to elementary school, dammit. This "round from five to the even number" business is entirely too crazy for me. Also, get offa my lawn.
Jesse - May 19, 2005 6:39:23 am PDT #5498 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, where were you in 2nd grade? you didn't learn that rule?
OK, waitaminnit here. Rounding up from five is not common knowledge?
Dag, people, did you not read -t's post??
There is an actual rule of rounding that if you are rounding from a 5 you go to the even number.
She's saying you don't ALWAYS round UP from 5, you round to the EVEN NUMBER.