why is it standard practice in math to round up when 5 or greater.

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why is it standard practice in math to round up when 5 or greater.

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It’s just a convention.

There are other conventions e.g. Round-To-Even (bankers rounding) which is used to avoid the slight upwards bump you get rounding a large number of 5s upward.

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