From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Why is (round 2.5) = 2? Date: 1995/04/17 Message-ID: <19950417T152713Z.enag@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101107689 references: <3msq2f$b6n@tools.near.net> <3mtu0f$s8h@mimsy.cs.umd.edu> organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313 newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp [Barry Margolin] | Rounding to even is the convention that I learned in elementary school | -- it's not just a computer thing. [Sean Luke] | Strange. I learned rounding .5 up, as did everyone I've talked to so | far. Where _did_ you go to school? :-) :-) maybe it's more prudent to ask _when_? (or maybe not. :) (my parents, both engineers, had never heard of anything but rounding .5 up, either.) last time we discussed this, one guy from South America chimed in and said that he also learned round-to-even in elementary school. an ex who grew up in Argentina had never heard of it. dunno. may we conclude that Lisp has something to tell people all the way from elementary school up, these days? # -- sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from irony