[Cfp-interest] roundTiesToEven with two odd results

[Jim Thomas]

Do we need to change anything to stay in sync with 754?

- Jim Thomas

> On Jan 8, 2018, at 10:29 AM, Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:
> 
> Printing the value 0.95 with one digit will be either.9 or 1. depending upon rounding.
> Now, both of those are odd numbers.  So, it is hard to do roundTiesToEven for this case.
> 754 4.3.1 now covers this case by requiring that the result be 1.
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