*** StinkFinger escribió/wrote (Sat, 4 Sep 2004 15:02:21 -0800):
> I cannot figure out either how or why I would use round().
> Can you provide an example ?

If the price is 25.99 and you truncate 25, you carry an error of 99 cents.
If you round to 26, the error is 1 cent. Rounding, the error is never
larger than 50 cents.


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