Questions about NCEG

[Andrew P. Mullhaupt]

In article <15576 at bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
| >"If the scaled value is in the range of representable values (for its
| >type) the result is either the nearest representable value, or the
| >larger or smaller representable value immediately adjacent to the
| >nearest representable value, chosen in an implementation-defined manner."
| Does anyone else think this word choice is strange?  I can understand

It looks to me like the standard (bless its soul) is making provision
for stable rounding, (see also banker's rounding). See Knuth for
details.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt