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On Tuesday 23 August 2005 22:40, Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
[...]
>      math.floor(num+0.5)

That doesn't get the even-odd rounding rules correct, which are (IIRC) 
mandatory for any financial work. (Of course, you're insane if you're using 
floats for financial work anyway.) It'll always round 0.5, 1.5 etc up.

Adam Moss wrote:
> Neither function is part of ANSI C (C89), I believe.

However, they are in C99...

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