• Prime Mover (unregistered)

    Cthulhu fhtagn

  • Birion (unregistered)

    Normally I'd say the last one was Null Island, but that one's off the coast of Africa, not in the middle of the Pacific.

  • Brian (unregistered)

    You could always go with banker's rounding, where .5 is rounded to the nearest even number, so 5.50 would go to 6. Fun fact: this is the default rounding convention in .NET.

  • (nodebb)

    The Bleak Expectations radio comedy is excellent and well worth checking out too.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cwgs6

  • (nodebb)

    I prefer to use all natural logs to build my wooden tables. If it was good enough for Euler, it's good enough for me.

  • Darren (unregistered)

    I was taught - and have done it this way ever since - that 0.5 rounds up. So your £5.50 (for a tiny beer) would go into the £6 field.

    0.01 to 0.49 rounds down, 0.50 to 0.99 rounds up (to 2 decimal places - longer values are available).

  • (nodebb)

    The natural log that my mother understood was pieces of dead tree, rather than the inverse of e^x. It think the A.I. (or A.I. light) that is driving the page is trying too hard and missing.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Darren

    There are many rules for how to do rounding, some more obscure than others.

  • (nodebb) in reply to dkf

    And sometimes natural logs are fairly round to begin with.

  • matt (unregistered)

    In this case, where the numbers are supposed to represent ranges, I'd consider 5 to mean 5.xx, and say it goes in 1-5, the same way someone who's 17 years and 364 days old is still in an 11-17 group and not 18-25. (Or the way speedrunners consider times, and somehow 4:59.99 counts as breaking 4:59.) It's still a WTF, but that's probably the best answer.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Birion

    Normally I'd say the last one was Null Island, but that one's off the coast of Africa, not in the middle of the Pacific.

    This is the Spacecraft cemetery in the South Pacific, where defunct spacecraft are deorbited to become oceanic debris.

  • Xntriq (unregistered) in reply to matt

    no, it means breaking 5:00

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