HELP: restore my faith in Python

[Grant Edwards]

In article <m38zzw9gcd.fsf at greebo.nodomain.de>, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
>grant at nowhere. (Grant Edwards) writes:
>
>> If you want to round to the nearest integer, then use
>> int(x+0.5).  That's been idiomatic in programming for longer
>> than I've been around.
>
>Unfortunately, it might produce incorrect results for negative x, at
>least on some systems which truncate towards 0 and towards -infinity:

Yup.

Back it the good days of VAX Fortran, you would use the SIGN
function to transfer the sign of x so that negative numbers
worked they way they should:

   int(x + sign(x)*0.5)

But we digress...

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