[Mono-list] Maths

[Marcus]

By the way, the more "usual" method of rounding *is* used when rounding occurs 
as a result of a format-string conversion, which results in such surprising 
output:

        Console.WriteLine("{0:n0}", 2.5 );  // prints 3
        Console.WriteLine( Math.Round(2.5) ); // prints 2



On Monday 09 February 2004 1:39 pm, Tom Cabanski wrote:
> In the science disciplines, n.5 is rounded to the nearest even integer
> (e.g. 1.5 rounds to 2, 2.5 rounds to 3 and 3.5 rounds to 4).  If you
> think about it, that is actually more accurate that always rounding as
> .5 is exactly in the middle and we should round up about half the time
> and down the other half of the time.