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TIL about banker's rounding, where a half-integer is rounded to the closest even integer. For example, 0.5 is rounded to 0, and 1.5 is rounded to 2. This is intended to remove the bias towards the larger number that comes with rounding 0.5 up during approximate calculations.

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