andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> >   Why? floor(value+.5) does the same thing.
> > 
> no it doesn't, that was the whole point. In some cases people want a 
> function that round halves away from zero. round(-3.5)=-4

  Why would anyone want to round halves away from zero? And if someone
*really* wants that, he can make his own function which does that. The
rest can use either floor(value+.5) or ceil(value-.5), whichever they
prefer.

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