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	Rounding Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rounded numbers are easier to work with in your head.
		To round numbers to the nearest thousand, make the numbers that end in 1 through 499 into the next lower number that ends in 000.
		Numbers that have the last three digits of 500 or more should be rounded up to the next even thousand.
	hometown.aol.com /iongoal/g41c-round1000.htm (117 words)

	Rounding Numbers — FactMonster.com
		7.8199 rounded to the nearest tenth is 7.8
		1.0621 rounded to the nearest hundredth is 1.06
		3.8792 rounded to the nearest thousandth is 3.879
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0875987.html (492 words)

	Rounding Numbers
		For example, if you wish to round the number 53.68 to three significant digits, round the 6 digit to 7 since the non-significant digit 8 is between 6 and 9.
		To round 53.68 to two significant digits, round the 3 to 4 since the non-significant digit immediately to the right is 6.
		If the number immediately to the right of the significant numbers is between 0 and 4, leave the significant numbers unchanged and drop the non-significant numbers.
	www.lagoonsonline.com /laboratory-articles/roundingnumbers.htm (536 words)

	Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Numbers enter the documents you write in a variety of ways expressions of quantities, dates, fractions, percentages, scores, and times, to name just a few.
		Writing numbers as words or numerals depends on whether the surrounding text is technical or nontechnical.
		Round sums over a million dollars are expressed in a combination of numerals and words.
	www.neu.edu /styleguide/8_0.html (1531 words)

	Rounding Numbers: EnchantedLearning.com
		When a number is rounded to the hundreds place, the final form has a zero for both the tens digit and the ones digit.
		When a decimal number is rounded to the tenths place, the final form has no digit in the hundredths place (or any places to the right of that).
		To round off a number, the digit to be rounded either remains the same or is increased by one, and one or more of the digits on the right are eliminated or changed to zero.
	www.zoomschool.com /math/rounding (968 words)

	Rounding Numbers
		Rounding means reducing the digits in a number while trying to keep it's value similar.
		Example: 73 rounded to the nearest ten is 70, because 73 is closer to 70 than to 80.
		First you need to know if you are rounding to tenths, or hundredths, etc. Or maybe to "so many decimal places".
	www.mathsisfun.com /rounding-numbers.html (393 words)

	Significant Figures
		The number of significant figures in a measurement, such as 2.531, is equal to the number of digits that are known with some degree of confidence (2, 5, and 3) plus the last digit (1), which is an estimate or approximation.
		There are four significant figures in both the mass of the penny (2.531) and the number of grams in a pound (453.6).
		One way of rounding off involves underestimating the answer for five of these digits (0, 1, 2, 3, and 4) and overestimating the answer for the other five (5, 6, 7, 8, and 9).
	chemed.chem.purdue.edu /genchem/topicreview/bp/ch1/sigfigs.html (547 words)

	Four Hundred Guru--Odd Ways to Round Numbers
		The ROUND function accepts two arguments--a number to be rounded and the number of decimal positions to round to.
		Number Nearest 3Qtrs.000.00.300.00.400.75.500.75.700.75.900.75 1.000.75 1.100.75 1.200 1.50 1.300 1.50 1.400 1.50 1.500 1.50 1.600 1.50 1.700 1.50 1.800 1.50 1.900 2.25 2.000 2.25 2.100 2.25 2.200 2.25 2.300 2.25 2.400 2.25
		Divide the number to be rounded by the number to which you're rounding.
	www.itjungle.com /fhg/fhg092105-story02.html (673 words)

	Rounding Numbers
		Rounding makes numbers that are easier to work with in your head.
		Numbers that end in a digit of 5 or more should be rounded up to the next even ten.
		The number 88 rounded to the nearest ten would be 90.
	www.aaamath.com /est27a-rounding.html (129 words)

	Round off Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rounding is a method to approximate a number to a certain place.
		Step 1: If the digit to the right of the place is equal to or greater than 5, round the number up by adding 1 to the place, and then eliminating all the digits to the right of the place.
		Step 2: If the digit to the right of the place is less than 5, round the number down by by eliminating all the digits to the right of the place.
	www.gomath.com /htdocs/lesson/round_lesson1.htm (96 words)

	Rounding Numbers
		When you have to round an answer, you are usually told how much to round it.
		It's simplest when you're told how many "places" to round to, but you should also know how to round to a named "place", such as "to the nearest thousandth" or "to the ten-thousandths place".
		Otherwise, it looks like you rounded to one decimal place, or to the tenths place, and your answer could be counted off as being incorrect.
	www.purplemath.com /modules/rounding.htm (416 words)

	ING Investment Weekly: Big Round Numbers
		This number falls out of the facts, reported last week, that the population resident in the United States passed 300 million on October 17, and that Chinese foreign exchange reserves are reaching $1 trillion U.S. equivalent.
		Round numbers are more eye catching than their lumpy inelegant cousins, even if not necessarily more meaningful.
		So those big numbers hanging over our heads can be taken as predictions that our incomes will grow, in real terms or inflationary, to be able to service our indebtedness in much the same way that most of us have been able to handle imposing mortgages.
	weekly.inginvestment.com /e_article000680291.cfm?x=b11,0,w (513 words)

	Excel Rounding. Round Number in Excel. Round Up, Down & to a Multiple
		If the number of digits is negative, it will round to the left of the decimal point.
		Round Numbers Up The ROUNDUP function will round numbers up, away from zero.
		There is another round function in Excel that will round a number to the multiple we specify.
	www.ozgrid.com /Excel/excel-rounding.htm (391 words)

	Round About
		We can decide what is just about or close to or almost by using a number line.
		number, we look for what it is closer to.
		to the nearest hundred is done the same way as rounding to the nearest ten.
	www.beaconlearningcenter.com /WebLessons/RoundAbout/default.htm (144 words)

	BillingsGazette.com :: City Lights: Numbers seem better when round
		There is something satisfying, something comfortable, about being able to produce a nice, round number that is also a milestone.
		Our love of round numbers, and of round numbers that happen to be multiples of 10, might spring from our self-love.
		Why our esteem for 10 should extend to round numbers in general, and the more zeros the better, I don't know, but it certainly seems to work that way.
	billingsgazette.net /articles/2006/03/19/news/local/50-kemmick.txt (1001 words)

	round
		The strike was settled after a long round of talks; a round of parties.
		a specified number of arrows shot from a specified distance from the target in accordance with the rules.
		to reduce successively the number of digits to the right of the decimal point of a mixed number by dropping the final digit and adding 1 to the next preceding digit if the dropped digit was 5 or greater, or leaving the preceding digit unchanged if the dropped digit was 4 or less.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/round (693 words)

	Round Numbers--Mathematics: Grades 1-3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Students learn to round numbers to the nearest tens, hundreds, and thousands.
		Ask the children if the number 16 is closer to 10 or 20.
		(The number is in the blue area so it is closer to 20.) Do this with several different numbers to give the children visual practice with rounding.
	www.teachercreated.com /lessons/020118pm.shtml (370 words)

	On Round Numbers
		It is interesting to contemplate the many round numbers broken with what would seem to be inordinate frequency on almost a daily basis these days.
		I believe that the tendency to be attracted to the round is an example of the law of universal gravitation.
		One market will be attracted to levels of price or another market according to the weight of the public's current or prospective inclination to provide energy to the market at these levels, and inversely to the square of the distance between them (or some such).
	www.dailyspeculations.com /vic/Round.html (477 words)

	How should I round numbers on the Math A Examination?
		Remember that when you round a number, you obtain an approximate answer.
		Rounding should be done only when the final answer is reached.
		should not be rounded to 314.16 or 314.
	www.regentsprep.org /Regents/math/rounding/rounding.htm (261 words)

	Apportionment, or How to Round Seat Numbers
		Another, the ‘method of equal proportions’, again uses a divisor, but rounds up only if the number of seats to be allocated exceeds the geometric average of itself rounded down and itself plus 1 rounded down.
		The relative sizes of the votes of the parties are constrained, so the number of votes received by the i’th largest party, divided by the number of votes received by the i+1’th largest party, is in the range 3^½ to 2^¼.
		For each vote distribution we calculate the average number of seats won by the largest party, by the second-largest, the third-largest, etc. For each of the six methods under consideration, we observe the difference between that method and the average.
	www.jdawiseman.com /papers/electsys/apportionment.html (1970 words)

	numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If your writing contains numbers, the general rule is to spell out in letters all the numbers from zero to nine and use numerals for larger numbers; but there are exceptions.
		Large round numbers are often rendered thus: “50 billion sold.” With measurements, use numerals: “4 inches long.” Never start a sentence with a numeral.
		Either spell out the number involved or rearrange the sentence to move the number to a later position.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/errors/numbers.html (106 words)

	Javascript
		Another way to change the string into a number is to multiply it by one.
		While there are two main divisions of data, numbers and strings, there are also two types of numbers, reals and integers.
		I have given you a number to start with, but you can change it to see different effects for different numbers.
	gwydir.demon.co.uk /jo/javascript/numbers.htm (1951 words)

	SlavoF's WebLog : Rounding numbers with .NET
		If value is halfway between two numbers, one of which is even and the other odd, then the even number is returned.
		This kind of rounding is sometimes called rounding to nearest, or banker's rounding.
		It inexplicably uses the rounding we're all used to.
	weblogs.asp.net /sfurman/archive/2003/03/07/3537.aspx (401 words)

	Number Round-Up - a math worksheet from Let's Think About
		Number Round-Up Round the following numbers to the nearest ten.
		Round the following numbers to the nearest hundred.
		Round the following numbers to the nearest thousand.
	www.tlsbooks.com /numberroundup.htm (63 words)

	Stock Trading Strategies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Round numbers are, in general, numbers that end in zero.
		Numbers do actually move toward and/or respect round numbers.
		Since most peoples' strategies are to place their orders at round numbers, you can gain an edge by placing your orders above or below round numbers.
	www.investmentu.com /tradersu/2006/20060125.html (1470 words)

	Round Numbers - ASP Free
		Round Numbers ASP Development forum discussing ASP related topics including coding practices, ASP tips, and more.
		I want to round numbers to include a 0 at the end.
		the following code will round the numbers 2 decimal places but if it is a 0 it will not display it.
	forums.aspfree.com /asp-development-5/round-numbers-45678.html (521 words)

	GolfDigest.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Your scores and your handicap are two numbers that golfers keep close track of, usually hoping they are trending downward.
		But we were interested in another number, one that most golfers like to get as high as they can: the number of rounds played.
		In one of his rare rounds, the Callaway chairman, 81, whose company invested $170 million in developing the Rule 35 golf balls, chopped a few into the nearby weeds.
	www.golfdigest.com /features/index.ssf?/features/round_nu_hwxvi1fc.html (1242 words)

	Final round big numbers conclude fall season ::
		The highlight on the initial day of competition was sophomore Megan Padua's 73, the team's low individual round of the tournament.
		But, the dreaded "big numbers" would show their faces over the final two rounds and prove to be the team's kryptonite.
		The last-place finish was the worst for the Lions this fall and is not the way the team had hoped to head into the winter off-season.
	www.cstv.com /sports/w-golf/uwire/103006aad.html (478 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Millennium and Millenarianism
		Though it is difficult to focus sharply the pictures used in the Apocalypse and the things expressed by them, yet there can be no doubt that the whole description refers to the spiritual combat between Christ and the Church on the one hand and the malignant powers of hell and the world on the other.
		Nevertheless, a large number of Christians of the post-Apostolic era, particularly in Asia Minor, yielded so far to Jewish apocalyptic as to put a literal meaning into these descriptions of St. John's Apocalypse; the result was that millenarianism spread and gained staunch advocates not only among the heretics but among the Catholic Christians as well.
		One of the heretics, the Gnostic Cerinthus, who flourished towards the end of the first century, proclaimed a splendid kingdom of Christ on earth which He would establish with the risen saints upon His second advent, and pictured the pleasures of this one thousand years in gross, sensual colours (Caius in Eusebius, "Hist.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10307a.htm (2562 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Round Numbers (In). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Round Numbers (In).
		Thus we say the population of the British Isles is forty millions in round numbers, and that of London four millions (1895).
		The idea is that what is round is whole or perfect, and, of course, fractions, being broken numbers, cannot belong thereto.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/14552.html (85 words)

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