R help - May 2003 - IEEE standard for rounding?

?round states "Note that for rounding off a 5, the IEEE standard is
used..."

I would like to properly reference the standard. I am searching a 
IEEE website and finding it difficult discover which IEEE standard 
this is.

Could someone tell me the IEEE standard number?

Thanks
-Don
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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA

IEEE 754
(sorry for incorrectly replying to a different article)

Mike Meyer, Seattle WA

>-----Original Message-----
>From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
>[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Don MacQueen
>Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 6:16 PM
>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: [R] IEEE standard for rounding?
>
>
>?round states "Note that for rounding off a 5, the IEEE 
>standard is used..."
>
>I would like to properly reference the standard. I am searching a 
>IEEE website and finding it difficult discover which IEEE standard 
>this is.
>
>Could someone tell me the IEEE standard number?
>
>Thanks
>-Don

It is IEEE 754-1985.

More information is available here:

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/


HTH,

Marc Schwartz