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Jerry W. Lewis
 
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A more bullet-proof approach is given in

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...7fce6145b70d69

As an example of the difference, try rounding =1110*0.0865 to 2 decimal
places with microsoft's bround function and my ASTMround. Microsoft's
bround will round 96.0150000000000 to 96.01, where my ASTMround will
correctly round it to 96.02. Another example of the difference is
referenced in that post.

Jerry

JE McGimpsey wrote:

That type of rounding is very common in science, too, where it prevents
a bias away from zero.

There are many other flavors. See

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;196652



In article ,
"Bernard Liengme" wrote:


I have seen this called Banker's Rounding, New Math rounding, Australian
rounding.