Talk:Swedish rounding

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[edit] usage in sweden

unless i misinterpret this text it says that Swedish Rounding has not been used in Sweden since 1985.

this is wrong, since such a system is still in use. values are rounded to the closest .50 SEK. 213.65.197.147 13:38, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 10c intervals

Why is there a section for "10c intervals"? Isn't it just "normal rounding"? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 10:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Isn't all of this just "normal rounding"? What is specifically Swedish about it? Are there country names for always-round-up or always-round-down too? –Henning Makholm 13:32, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Must be many countries which have no 1/100 coins, but some coins smaller than the currency unit, therefore needs a rounding method. Maybe no English speaking country, since they tend to have 1 cent/penny coins and highly valued currencies. How is the rand rounded? It has 5c as the smallest coin. --BIL 21:03, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Australia's smallest coin is .05, and New Zealand's is .10, and there are many English-speaking African states that have lost subdivisions all together. Nik42 21:45, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I assume, that rounding is not so very Swedish, but it is called "Swedish rounding" in Australia and New Zealand, just terminology. Many countries do some kind of rounding. -- BIL 09:40, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay, whimsy aside: The article does leave me wondering why they need to put any adjective in front of "rounding" in Australia and New Zealand. In Denmark we just speak about "rounding" to the nearest multiple of DKK 0.25. Were there any alternative rounding methods for cash transactions seriously proposed in .au or .nz such that it became necessary to explicitly specify this way of rounding rather than some other way? If anyone knows about this, please add some information or cross-references to the article. –Henning Makholm 20:45, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coin flip

Do people actually flip a coin for values ending in 5 with the 10c rule? Nik42 07:37, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

As far as I'm aware, 5 is the limit; thus from 5 up, the sum is always rounded upwards. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 19:58, 9 November 2007 (UTC)