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by BlueTemplar 832 days ago
I had never realized the necessity of nearest even.

I thought that 0.5 ought to be rounded to 1, mirroring 0.0 rounded to 0 !

But I can now see how this only works for reals, while anything non-continuous (even rationals ?) could end up with compounding errors...

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I've heard it described as bank-rounding