"Rounding" (was Re: [NLRS] W0AUS Corrected 10 GHz Contest results)

[John (JK) Kalenowsky, K9JK]

Yes, but when the ".5" is already rounded...IT could represent anywhere from 
.450000000001 to .549999999999 (you get the idea) so to really follow the 
rules of rounding, one needs to know what the decimal part behind the ".5" 
is.

Maybe the reason that BD reports 323 is that the "real" calculation result 
is something like 322.52 which would properly be 'rounded' to 323 if 
rounding to 0 decimal places or 322.5 if rounding to 1 decimal place. 322.48 
would tield a different rounding result for 0 decimal places but the same 
for 1 decimal place.

73, JK
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Baker, Donn B" <Donn.Baker at UNISYS.com>
To: <jcplatt1 at mmm.com>; "Robert E. Wesslund" <rewesslund at worldnet.att.net>
Cc: "Northern-Lights" <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:59
Subject: RE: [NLRS] W0AUS Corrected 10 GHz Contest results




GL reports it as 322.5 km.  Under STRICT rounding rules, you don't round 0.5 
to an ODD number (i.e., not to 323.  You would round, say, 321.5 to 322.)

But... as Jon says, a points' a point.

73 Donn
WA2VOI/0

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> ..... hmmmm, BD2004 reports EN34hl to EN15kp as 323 km, not
> 322.    Heck,
> its another point.    Round differences ?
>
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
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