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roadhouse007

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If you pay half of your life points, and the number of life points you have is an odd number, then you round to the nearest whole number.


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1st off, do you round down or up? I just can't remember.

2nd off, can you pay half of 1? If you round down, obviously not. But if you round up, is this possible, knowing the end result will be effectively paying nothing?
 
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Jason_C said:
It's spam; I know. But when someone says nothing gets past them, I have to disagree. :)
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I said no such thing. You even quoted me and you didn't notice that I didn't say that.

DaGuyWitBluGlasses said:
There's no rounding in real math.

Its only the application of it that involves rounding, and so it's the application that decides the rounding rules.
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What "application"? I seem to remember math class in 2nd or 3rd grade teaching me about rounding. In fact every math class I've taken since then has included how to round. Even the College Algebra class I took...
 
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Kyhotae said:
What "application"? I seem to remember math class in 2nd or 3rd grade teaching me about rounding. In fact every math class I've taken since then has included how to round. Even the College Algebra class I took...
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how do you know whether you're supposed to round to the ones, or 10s, or 1000s etc?
 
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Kyhotae said:
The text book says so. Or the teacher. Please correct my grammar, Jason_C. :nyah
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No thanks.

I'd rather correct your reasoning. Math textbooks and math teachers intend to teach people how to use math. At some levels of math, concepts that have no bearing in the real world for 99.9% of the population (such as, for example, infinity) are taught, but still, most math education is based on teaching the process of applying math to the universe. Now, since a lot of math has to do with things like profit and time management and such, and people don't get paid in tenths of a cent (usually), and people don't get paid by quarter-hours (sometimes), then math books teach us how to round so we can apply our mathematical calculations to the real world.

If I have five apples and I eat at least half of them, I have no more than two apples remaining. But if I have the number five and decrease it by at least half of itself, I have no more than two and one-half remaining. So you see, rounding is a concept that only matters when you're trying to apply mathematical calculations to reality.

Regardless, the generally accepted rule by most elementary math courses is that 1-4 round down and 5-9 round up.
 
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Wow. That was quite a waste of bandwidth you have there just to say the same thing that I already said. And I don't remember reasoning anything, so what exactly were you correcting?
 
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Jason, you're right. Most people don't get paid in quarter hours. As a matter of fact, the majority of people employed at hourly wages (rather than contract work or salary) are payed based on the 1/100th of the hour. When those people look at their paycheck, it is for xx.xx hours times their payrate. Yeah, I know, that rounds to being payed for something like each 36 seconds of being on the clock.

But as da guy said, what place to round to is based on what application you are using. The apples, probably whole number. Hourly pay, 1/100th of the hour generally speaking. It all depends.

I must really have too much time on my hands to be even bothering with this.......
 
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As a matter of fact, the majority of people employed at hourly wages (rather than contract work or salary) are payed based on the 1/100th of the hour. When those people look at their paycheck, it is for xx.xx hours times their payrate.

And it's because your pay is based off x times 1/100th hours worked ( x equals payrate) that your pay is often carried out to the 1/100th cent. BUT, often your pay is carried out to the 1/1000th (time clocks and all). It's because they round DOWN to the nearest cent, that corporations and other business entities make money off your hours worked versus the hours paid. The company will round DOWN to the nearest cent while all the 1/1000ths of hours worked accumulate over time to a substantial savings in payroll. Just my two cents (it actually 1 7/10 cents but I rounded up) worth of spam.
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