05-04-2025, 02:45 PM
Here, where I live in the states, we were always taught: Less than 0.5, round down. Otherwise round up. (No special rule for 0.5.)
I honestly had never heard of rounding to the nearest even number until going to college and hearing of "banker's rounding". It's still not something I ever see used around here for anything at all. I guess we're just not sophisticated enough to sort out rounding to the nearest even number...
Not that that's surprising anymore. At our local high school, they removed all the analog clocks because none of the students knew how to read them and were being stressed out during exams, not knowing how much time they had left. If we can't read a clock, we certainly can't sort out how to round properly without several pages of instructions and preferably a dozen illustrated photos to use for reference. /sigh
I honestly had never heard of rounding to the nearest even number until going to college and hearing of "banker's rounding". It's still not something I ever see used around here for anything at all. I guess we're just not sophisticated enough to sort out rounding to the nearest even number...
Not that that's surprising anymore. At our local high school, they removed all the analog clocks because none of the students knew how to read them and were being stressed out during exams, not knowing how much time they had left. If we can't read a clock, we certainly can't sort out how to round properly without several pages of instructions and preferably a dozen illustrated photos to use for reference. /sigh