On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:08:58AM +0000, Alex Gough wrote:
> =head2 Rounding
> 
> The rounding part of the context defines the rounding algoritm to be
> used, the following are provided (examples assume a precision of 5):
> 
> =over 4
> 
> =item Round down

This is rounding to zero, isn't it?

> =item Round half up

This is rounding to nearest (?)

> =item Round half even

This is the standard financial way of rounding?

Is there any use in having round to +Inf and round to -Inf?
I can't think where they might be useful, but they are the other two
rounding methods I can think of, so presumably sometimes they are useful.

Nicholas Clark
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