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Subject: Re: ROUND function in the French proposal about Fortran 2000
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Concerning my (french) proposal for ROUND : 

If the number is half between the two nearest value, apply the Gauss Rule
    i.e. the last digit must be even. 
    For instance : ROUND(1250,2) must be 1200  whereas
                   ROUND(1350,2) must be 1400
             
Perhaps, a problem of consistency may occur if, with some compilers or I/O 
    libraries, this rule is not (yet) applied. 
    In fact, I have not checked this with the compilers available to me.

                                                        Bernard PICHON