Re: Should %d round?
- Posted by Vinoba Mar 19, 2012
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Euphoria (or any other computer language) is only making real life easier, whether it is for calculating (math) or showing (video), presenting text (publishing), etc.
To show one digit always meant that you look at the second digit to decide, and to show five digits always meant that you look at the sixth digit before you decide.
It is absolutely ridiculous to say that somebody got 3 points if he really got 3.999 points in a contest. When you start using the word thousand or million it becomes even more ridiculous to say a city is 3 thousand miles away when it is 3.999 thousand miles away. It behoves us to look at the next (unwanted) digit and say that the city is 4 thousand miles away.
