[Cfp-interest 1981] Re: ties to away

[Mike Cowlishaw]

> Sadly, somewhere between 1985 and 2008 the English got corrupted.
> 
> When the committee added the concepts of
> 
>  	cases rounded away from zero
> 
>  	case rounded to even
> 
> there was an extra preposition added in front of 'away' when 
> the names used in the IEEE standard were chosen. And we are 
> stuck with it.

IEEE 754 consistently uses ..ToEven and then added ..ToAway as a parallel
construct.  Neither is decent English :-).  "To Even", even with the added
blank, makes no sense without further definition.  It's just a name...

Mike