Timeline for Rounding off negative decimal and positive decimal number
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| Jan 25, 2023 at 16:15 | comment | added | Barmar | @EdMorton This is called "banker's rounding" and is common in most languages. | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 12:53 | comment | added | Ed Morton | sprintf("%.0f") rounds .5 to the nearest even number on many, but not all, systems so 1.5 would round to 2 but 2.5 would also round to 2 - just worth mentioning in case anyone thinks that .5 would always round up or down or that 2.5 would round to 3 (or 2) on all systems. See gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Round-Function. | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 12:38 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 6 characters in body |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 8:33 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 179 characters in body |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 8:27 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 179 characters in body |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 8:21 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 257 characters in body |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 7:59 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 91 characters in body |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 7:45 | history | answered | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |