I recently found that software packages deal with ties in different ways:
- round ties away from zero:
round(0.5) = 1.0,round(1.5) = 2.0 - round ties to even:
round(0.5) = 0.0,round(1.5) = 2.0
I am aware there other methods as well.
I am now looking for an authoritave source that supports one of these methods as being "standard" in mathematics. I found serveral online sources (1, 2, 3) that support the "away from zero" method as the "standard" but they don't seem to carry much authority.