[Tutor] Fw: About the Round Function

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Apr 1 19:05:33 EDT 2016


On 01/04/2016 20:46, Nacir Bouali wrote:
>     -----Forwarded by Nacir Bouali/sse/stud/aui/ma on 04/01/2016 08:46PM -----
>     To: tutor at python.org
>     From: Nacir Bouali/sse/stud/aui/ma
>     Date: 11/14/2015 08:21PM
>     Subject: About the Round Function
>
>     Dear Python Tutor(s),
>     My students and I are interested in knowing the rationale behind Python's
>     choice of the Banker's rounding algorithm to be the default rounding
>     algorithm in the third release of Python.

I'm sorry but I do not understand the above at all, what third release 
of Python, for what type of Python object, please explain?

>     We'd also like to know how the function is actually implemented.

I'm sorry but I cannot say until you give us precise details as I've 
asked above.

>     Regards,
>     Nacir

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