Why do we round five up when it’s exactly in the middle?

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Why do we round five up when it’s exactly in the middle?

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Because we had to pick one or the other, and 5 rounding up meant that five digits rounded up (5,6,7,8,9) and five rounded down (0,1,2,3,4). Rounding is not a mathematical law, it’s just how we choose to do things.

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