Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Three-Tone Economics

2007-07-05 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Peekee wrote: I believe accountants(?) etc. use that rounding fairly often. No. Bankers' rounding is nearest-or-even. That's also the usual mode for binary floating point arithmetic. The proto's method is a variation of bankers' rounding; I didn't want 0.5 to be rounded to 0

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Three-Tone Economics

2007-07-05 Thread Peekee
Quoting Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: guess he is just being quirky then. Peekee wrote: I believe accountants(?) etc. use that rounding fairly often. No. Bankers' rounding is nearest-or-even. That's also the usual mode for binary floating point arithmetic. -zefram -- Peekee

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Three-Tone Economics

2007-07-05 Thread Zefram
Peekee wrote: >I believe accountants(?) etc. use that rounding fairly often. No. Bankers' rounding is nearest-or-even. That's also the usual mode for binary floating point arithmetic. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Three-Tone Economics

2007-07-05 Thread Peekee
Quoting Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ed Murphy wrote: a) When a proposal is adopted, its proposer gains Red VCs Ordinary, Interested, and only once per week please. which any fractional voting limits are rounded to the nearest integer (nearest odd integer if the fractional p

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Three-Tone Economics

2007-07-05 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: >a) When a proposal is adopted, its proposer gains Red VCs Ordinary, Interested, and only once per week please. > which any fractional voting limits are rounded to the nearest > integer (nearest odd integer if the fractional part is 0.5). Never seen this roundi

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Three-Tone Economics

2007-07-05 Thread Peekee
Quoting Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "then e loses loses a VC" Proto-Proposal: Three-Tone Economics (AI = 3, please) Change the Power of Rule 2126 (Voting Credits) to 2, and amend it to read: Voting Credits (VCs) are a measure of each player's ability to affect voting limits o