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From: taylor@glasgow.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Integer division
Message-ID: <389@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 12:04:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 12:04:40 1986
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Reply-To: taylor@glasgow.UUCP (Jem Taylor)
Organization: Comp Sci Dept, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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During my undergraduate days, one of the Great Men who taught us suggested,
seriously I think, that rounding should be up OR down AT RANDOM, with a 50/50
chance. This would remove systematic errors introduced by rounding in iteractive
algorithms. ( which way do you round 0.5 is the hardest question; 0.5000001 and
0.4999999 are much easier.)

-Jem.

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