At 4:26 PM +0100 8/24/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:49:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:

 As for rounding, I'm open to changes there too. Standard for
 computing is round-to-zero, since it's easy (drop the fractional
 part) but I was always taught round-to-closest-int. Too many physical
 sciences classes, I expect. Either way's arguably correct, and
 arguably horribly wrong, so I can see it being a big tossup there.

I'd be confused if a computer language didn't truncate towards zero. Despite being a physical scientist by training.

Fair enough -- we'll round to zero then. -- Dan

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