rounding
roun·ding
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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