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Author Spencer Brown
Recipients Spencer Brown, adam.ulrich
Date 2022-01-22.02:58:28
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This is intentional behaviour, if the value is 5 it rounds towards even as documented here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#round
The reason is so that if you have a bunch of random data, rounding won't slightly bias the result upward or downward.
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