Re: Round()

On Thursday 15 August 2002 11:42 pm, you wrote:
> Quick, and probably trivial question:
>
> Why do both Delphi and Kylix round real numbers with a real part of .5
> down when the integer part is even, and up when it is odd?
>
> IE, 1.5 becomes 2, but 2.5 also becomes 2

There are various ways to do rounding, there was a /. thread about this not 
so long ago. 

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/2253259&mode=thread&tid=128 

The Delphi/Kylix method avoids increasing the average value of the numbers. 
i.e. in your example the average stays as 2 rather than 2.5 if you always 
round up.

> Is there some option in 8087CW that can adjust this behaviour?

Don't know.

Ben Hague