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Re: [rfc] rint() rounds to even
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> That's all fine and well, but the docs say "Round to closest integer",
> and nothing about the type of rounding, which should atleast mention
> "round-to-even". Not everyone who uses this is doing so for mathematical
> formulas and may just want to perform some simple math, which they
> assume uses "high school math" of round up at .5
The function is rounding to the closest integer. The documentation
cannot and will not be changed since it is not required, other
implementation can do something else. If somebody relies on .5
rounding in a certain way s/he is doing something wrong.
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