Employers are legally permitted to round employee hours worked to the nearest quarter-hour for payroll purposes. This makes payroll calculations easier for some businesses. For many small businesses, ...

You've probably noticed something strange happening at checkout lately. The cashier apologizes and says they're short on pennies. Your change gets rounded. Sometimes you gain a few cents, sometimes ...

Rounding with IT staff has not only raised the IT skills of nurses, giving them a competitive advantage, it has also reduced the volume of help desk tickets and rewarded some IT staffers with a deeper ...

McDonald's is rounding cash customers' bills to the nearest five cents at the register. This is happening because the United States is phasing out the penny. The U.S. government stopped making new ...

Way back in the mists of time (in the early days of 2006), I penned a “How To” column that presented An introduction to different rounding algorithms. In order to provide some real-world examples, ...

Editor's Note: I just thought I should mention that there's an ongoing, ever-evolving, and dramatically different presentation of this topic entitled Rounding 101 on my personal website. We'll start ...

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