Really? You don't always round up? Huh.
Technically, no, 3.965 would round to 3.96.
Stop means no. And no means no. So . . . stop.
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What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
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.
-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
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.
Scrappy - May 19, 2005 6:39:45 am PDT #5499 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
People put their GPAs on their resumes? I had no idea.
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amych - May 19, 2005 6:39:59 am PDT #5500 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Happy birthday, Buffistas!
§ ita § - May 19, 2005 6:43:35 am PDT #5501 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There is an actual rule of rounding that if you are rounding from a 5 you go to the even number
This is a weird rule. Is it new? Did I forget something this big?
bon bon - May 19, 2005 6:47:53 am PDT #5502 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
OK, thanks for the clarification Jesse. I have never heard that before and am suspicious without someone explaining the rationale.
-t - May 19, 2005 6:51:51 am PDT #5503 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I can't find any confirmation of my rule, but it's what I was taught. If you always round 5s up, you introduce a bias that is eliminated if you round to the even number, because half the time its up and half the time its down.
Aha, found a reference. Microsoft calls it Banker's Rounding: Banker's rounding rounds .5 up sometimes and down sometimes. The convention is to round to the nearest even number, so that both 1.5 and 2.5 round to 2, and 3.5 and 4.5 both round to 4. Banker's rounding is symmetric.
Nilly - May 19, 2005 6:54:16 am PDT #5504 of 10001
Swouncing
This site agrees with -t.
I guess the rational behind this is not to round always up if it's in the exact middle, meaninf 5. Rounding always up will eliminate the "half" nature of that 5, so you have to divide to cases in which you round up and cases in which you round down. I have no idea why the evens get the special treatment, though.
[Edit: x-post wit -t]
§ ita § - May 19, 2005 6:55:36 am PDT #5505 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Banker's rounding hurts me. In which arenas is it applied?