That type of rounding is very common in science, too, where it prevents
a bias away from zero.

There are many other flavors. See

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;196652



In article <[email protected]>,
"Bernard Liengme" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have seen this called Banker's Rounding, New Math rounding, Australian
> rounding.