Round, With Tie Breakers, Round Two - Cleve Moler on Mathematics and Computing
 

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I published [URL="https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2021/02/25/round-with-ties-to-even/"]Round, With Ties to Even[/URL] a couple of days ago. Steve Eddins and Daniel Dolan immediately had substantive comments. Here is my reaction to their comments.

Contents[URL="https://www.labfans.com/bbs/admincp/#7365c624-e928-4045-a1b4-209bcdc91f74"]Two More[/URL][URL="https://www.labfans.com/bbs/admincp/#fdeaaa3a-2ff3-4471-8142-0985473e5785"]Sample[/URL][URL="https://www.labfans.com/bbs/admincp/#67773591-b7e1-4df9-968f-58fc6ca90c15"]Scaling[/URL][URL="https://www.labfans.com/bbs/admincp/#bbea3ac5-e51d-4dde-9895-f66f824f21d7"]round[/URL]Two MoreThe four choices that I described for how to break ties -- 'even', 'odd', 'up' and 'down' -- all have the same behavior for positive and negative numbers. The current built-in round uses the 'up" rule.

Steve sees the need for two more choices that are sensitive to the sign of the number. I will call them 'plus' and 'minus". They round to the right and to the left on the number line. That's sometimes known as round toward



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