Re: Bug in Delphi SimpleRoundTo function?

Trevor Toms wrote:

Ask any mathematician and you'll get the same answer: 0.5 rounds up.

That I doubt. This produces a biased rounding - round a lot of positive
values and add them, and the result will consistently be larger than
the sum of the original values.

Bankers rounding is statistically unbiased - round a lot of positive
values and add them, and the result will be very much the same as the
sum of the original values.

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