[R] round() seems inconsistent when rounding 5s

[Marc R. Feldesman]

At 01:53 PM 3/15/2003, Rashid Nassar wrote:
 >It may be my lack of unerstanding, but round() seems to me to give
 >inconsistent results when rounding 5s as in the following examples?

Not really.  Floating point numbers can't be precisely represented in 
binary and so the internal representation of 1.5 might be very different 
from what you think it is.  If you've done any programming at all, this is 
one of the first lessons you learn about "real" numbers and computers.


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