Speaking of rounding errors...

[Christopher T King]

Speakign of rounding errors, why is round() defined to round away from 
zero? I've always been quite fond of the mathematical definition of 
rounding of floor(n+.5). As a contrived example of why the latter is IMHO 
better, I present the following:

for x in [x+.5 for x in xrange(-10,10)]:
	print int(round(x))

This prints -10, -9, ..., -2, -1, 1, 2, ..., 9, 10 (it skips zero),
probably not what you'd expect. I'm not sure how often a case like this
comes up in real usage, but I imagine it's more often than a case relying
on the current behaviour would.