From: "Geo." 

Riiiight, and as an end user how does one set this system wide?

Geo.

"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in
message news:3dcc8297{at}w3.nls.net...
> There's four available founding modes in 754 standard.  up, down, nearest,
and chop to zero.
>
> Its entirely up to the applications to set the most appropriate rounding
mode for the task at hand.  In extreme cases, you may be
> changing it constantly between NPX calc operations.  If you don't
explicitly set this to what you want, you may get answers other
> than what you want ;->
>
> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:3dcc5761{at}w3.nls.net...
> > what asshole committee came up with that? It's not even consistent? What
> > does it do on Feb 29th?
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> > "Rich"  wrote in message news:3dcbfdfe$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >    .NET follows IEEE 754 which specifies round to nearest as round to
even.
> > 3.45 rounds to 3.4.  3.55 rounds to 3.6.  You can look up IEEE 754 on
the
> > web if you are not familiar.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >   "chad"  wrote in message
> > news:3dcbd8a3{at}w3.nls.net...
> >   i feel all dirty for making a post so pro microsoft like i did before
(in
> >   the anti MS rant thread.)  they really are evidence of the adage:
absolute
> >   power corrupts absolutely.
> >
> >   so i just got this from one of the development vp's in my company, in
an
> >   email entitled "only in Microsoft software."  i
figured i would send
it
> >   along, to help cleanse myself.
> >
> >   .NET's Math.Round function rounds "down" 0.5 (i.e.
3.45 rounds to 3.4)
> >   SQL Server's decimal-rounding rounds "up" 0.5 (i.e.
3.45 rounds to
3.5)
> >
> >   Another "win" for MS :(
> >
> >   chad - feeling a little better now
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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