Sales tax rounding and other rounding issues

[Roland Roberts]

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>>>>> "Derek" == Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

    >> An other usefull feature would be to select the type of rounding:
    >> 1) >= 0.5 rouded up
    >> 2) <= 0.5 rounded down
    >> 
    >> It looks like most packages use method 1

    Derek> These are equivalent except for what happens when it ==
    Derek> 0.5000...  I'm not sure what to suggest here.

I think his point was that he would like to be able to pick which
rounding is done.  Maybe he's seeing cases where he thinks it makes a
difference in amount of fiddling he has to do.

regards,

roland
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