From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Rounding doubles to ints
Date: 08 Jun 2000 19:37:11 -0700
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Robin Johnson <robbat2 AT home DOT com> writes:

> 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

Umm, I believe the idea is "add 0.5 and truncate".  So 4.0 -> 4.5 ->
4.0 but 4.6 -> 5.1 -> 5.0.

> 
> 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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