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Author veky
Recipients marco_ocram, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, ronaldoussoren, stutzbach, veky
Date 2020-08-20.18:38:15
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ROUND_HALF_UP is not chosen because it's popular, but because it's the best way to compensate for errors in representing decimal numbers by binary numbers.

Thinking that floats are decimal numbers is going to bite you anyway sooner or later. For example, would you expect (with your implementation) rnd(2.8-1.3) == rnd(1.8-1.3) ?
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