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Re: How to round?
From: Pete Solon Palmer
Date: 2019 Jun 13, 15:23 -0700
From: Pete Solon Palmer
Date: 2019 Jun 13, 15:23 -0700
You guys have covered this subject really well, but I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents: There is a US military standard for rounding found in the drafting standards. It either goes like this: If over 0.5 round up, otherwise round down. Or it might be this: If equal to, or over 0.5 round up, otherwise round down. I can't remember which it is, but I think it is in Mil-Std-100 G, Standards for Engineering Drawings.
I know that drafting is not navigation, and I apologize for going off-subject, but this may give some of us a firm foundation to leap from.
In computer-ese, to round, I add 0.5 to a number and then take the integer. Works for me.
