Editor's Note: I just thought I should mention that there's an ongoing, ever-evolving, and dramatically different presentation of this topic entitled Rounding 101 on my personal website. We'll start ...

Let’s see what Jerry and Albert are buying for their holiday. Looking good! We should work out how much money they’ll need. Let’s make a rough estimate by rounding the costs to the nearest pound.

The mysteries of rounding are exposed; strict, unbiased rounding can be applied. Chris BurgessRounding a result to the required number of decimal places is easy, isn’t it? After all, we were all ...