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Casio rounding
11-19-2018, 01:46 PM
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RE: Casio rounding
(11-14-2018 03:39 PM)toml_12953 Wrote:  
(11-14-2018 01:59 PM)Eddie W. Shore Wrote:  Interesting. The rounding scheme seems to be has been arbitrarily chosen instead of going with the traditional rule of looking at the last digit and rounding up when it is 5 or more.

For statistics, the rule is round to the nearest even digit:

Round to one decimal place:
5.55 ==> 5.6
5.45 ==> 5.4

I don't think I was familiar with this method (Banker's method if I recall correctly) until Richard Nelson's talk about rounding methods at HHC 2018.
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Casio rounding - Pekis - 11-13-2018, 01:19 PM
RE: Casio rounding - Albert Chan - 11-13-2018, 04:24 PM
RE: Casio rounding - Eddie W. Shore - 11-14-2018, 01:59 PM
RE: Casio rounding - toml_12953 - 11-14-2018, 03:39 PM
RE: Casio rounding - Eddie W. Shore - 11-19-2018 01:46 PM
RE: Casio rounding - toml_12953 - 11-19-2018, 03:05 PM
RE: Casio rounding - ijabbott - 11-14-2018, 04:28 PM



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