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From: Robin Johnson <robbat2 AT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Rounding doubles to ints
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 01:04:08 GMT
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not neccesarily, say for example you have 
4.0, which, rounded off, will still be 4.0
if you add .5 it will become 5.0 instead of 4.0

Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> 
> "Robin Johnson" <robbat2 AT home DOT com> schreef in bericht
> news:39367A02 DOT 7EA47FC5 AT home DOT com...
> > To make it round up, add .4 to your number right before you round
> > and to round down, subtract .4
> 
> Shouldn't that be + 0.5?

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