[fpc-devel]bug or feature?

[Jonas Maebe]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Jonas Maebe wrote:

> > 4
> 
> The rounding is done by the FPU, which uses the "round to nearest even"
> number or something like that. It's not that way (since round(3.1)
> will return 3), but it is that way with .5. It's calle "accountant
> rounding" or "financial rounding" or something like that.

FWIW: I remember the name again, it's called "banker's rounding"


Jonas