Originally Posted By: moribundman
java, what you describe is the round-to-even rule, I think. As you have described, this method ideally reduces error accumulation when working with a number of rounded figures.
Pete, I don't ever hear anybody talking about "full rounding," but the term "half rounding" does ring a (faint) bell.
Yes, I gave one example of the different ways to treat 1/2 values.
As indicated, there are others, such as always round up, always round down, odd rounding, and so on.
I didn't even touch stochastic rounding, LOL.