From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 21 21:25:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25205 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell1.dragondata.com (shell1.dragondata.com [204.137.237.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25200 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eddieb@shell1.dragondata.com) Received: from localhost (eddieb@localhost) by shell1.dragondata.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15965; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:24:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from eddieb@shell1.dragondata.com) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:24:54 -0500 (CDT) From: EddieB To: Rob cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in rintf()?... In-Reply-To: <19981021230200.A15504@net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message