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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:24:54 -0500 (CDT)
From:      EddieB <eddieb@shell1.dragondata.com>
To:        Rob <drifter@stratos.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bug in rintf()?...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810212324190.15962-100000@shell1.dragondata.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981021230200.A15504@net>

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> 	Come to think of it, I remember that to.  Back in high school, I
> had a chemistry teacher who told us that we were supposed to round up on
> odd numbers and down on even numbers.
> 	The idea was that to not to would skew results somehow by always
> rounding one way.  Observing those rules, you would "cancel out" your
> "round-up" bias.
> 
> 	That's the way I learned it, anyway.
> 
> 	-Rob


Thank you for making me feel like I'm not totally crazy /:o)

Jon


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