andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> depends on convention. There as thus 4 ways to round halves: 
> up,down,towards zero and away from zero.

  Actually there's a fifth convention which is also widely used: Round
to the closest even number. I believe the idea behind this one is that
tries to even out systematic bias in lengthy calculations.

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