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jebem · (This post was last modified: 02-28-2015 02:42 PM by jebem.)

(02-28-2015 01:33 PM)rprosperi Wrote: 5/4 means "rounded off" - which is pretty ambiguous, since these same machines also had a "rounded down" and "rounded up" option.

Thank you, Bob.
Following your pointer, I did some testing.

Indeed, in this model, if the 5/4 selector is set to 4 decimal places, I get these answers:
1/3 = 0.3333 (5th decimal digit value below 5, so round down)
1/6 = 0.1667 (5th decimal digit value equal or above 5, so round up)

And this is what I have learn at the engineering technical school in the 70's, but we didn't call it 5/4, so I was not associating it with the rounding rules at all.