29-10-2008, 17:24
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Re: TV licence fee
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Originally Posted by garinda
Perhaps basic mathematics has moved on somewhat, since it was taught using slates and chalk.
It's common practice, for ease of reading, that figures above .5 are rounded up, and below that are rounded down to the nearest whole number.
Thus the findings, of this, and other more recent polls, are accurate.
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Know-it-all garinda was privy to the actual figures and jumps to the conclusion that some of them have been rounded up or down.
By the way round up occurs at 0.5 and above not above 0.5.
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