(That particular example, even though you'd think it's a fucking obvious one, is one that's been used to fuck over uneducated people in the wild before Hence you always count the number of weeks in a year by dividing 365 / 7 = 52 plus a day, not by adding up the months)
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Your other article cheekily argues we could avoid this situation entirely if we made it a rule to always round down (truncate) It then goes on to point out that there are obvious real world cases where doing this is perverse
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And that most importantly truncating when people EXPECT you to round could lead to disaster (especially on the stock market, which is entirely driven in the short term by wild emotional guesswork) Hence the important thing is deciding on a consistent standard
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