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rounding

roun·ding

UK/ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/ US/ˈraʊndɪŋ/ uncommon

noun

1.

(mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals

  • “the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding”
  • “taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small”

Origin

By surface analysis, round + -ing.

Phrases

  • bankers' rounding
  • broken rounding
  • convergent rounding
  • double rounding
  • Dutch rounding
  • floating-point rounding
  • Gaussian rounding
  • odd-even rounding

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