Name: bb33257 Date: 11/18/97


Java is supposed to conform to the IEEE floating point standard
as much as possible. This should include the behavior of
rounding, including the rounding of numbers formatted by the
DecimalFormat class.

The IEEE standard specifies a default rounding method known as
`round to nearest or even.' This method rounds to an even digit
if digits being rounded off are exactly `50000...'

DecimalFormat currently implements `round to nearest' instead of
`round to nearest or event.' [asl]
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