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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: # to the nth power
Message-ID: <14427@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 11 Nov 90 08:39:26 GMT
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In article <4239@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>Does anyone know why C hasn't got a round() function and why ANSI
>failed to add one?

Because it is trivial to roll your own:
#define	Round( d )	floor( (d) + 0.5 )	/* requires <math.h> */
and because there was no established existing practice (e.g. the library
Base Document did not specify such a function).