Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> writes:
>>> Can you please someone elaborate what's the meaning of "even" in
>>> datatype.sgml?
>>>> representable values, in order to avoid a widespread bug where input
>>>> routines do not properly respect the round-to-even rule.) This value will
>> It does actually mean "even and odd". This kind of rounding is also
>> called "Banker's Rounding".
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even
> Oh, Thanks! The link is very helpful.
I think actually the standard terminology is "round-to-nearest-even".
regards, tom lane
