Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
per eccesso/per difetto
English translation:
Rounding up and down.
Added to glossary by
Massimo Gaido
May 29, 2003 16:16
21 yrs ago
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Italian term
per eccesso/per difetto
Non-PRO
Italian to English
Other
arrotondare (to round off) un numero per eccesso/per difetto
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 +7 | Rounding up and down. |
Massimo Gaido
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| 5 +1 | rounding down or rounding off and rounding up |
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Proposed translations
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Rounding up and down.
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Note added at 2003-05-29 16:22:50 (GMT)
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Number
Rounding up and down
Sometimes we don\'t need to be exact in numbers and we have to make sensible measurements.
If you were to measure the length of a field you might not be interested in the number of centimetres, only how long it is in metres.
For example: a school playing field is 60.35m long. This means that it is 60m and 35cm long: the 35cm does not really count here.
If you were asked how long is it to the nearest metre you would say 60m.
YOU HAVE ROUNDED DOWN THE NUMBER.
We often round to the nearest ten, hundred or thousand depending upon what we are measuring.
How do we know whether to round up or down?
This is the easy bit.
if the last number is 5 or above we round up
If the last number is less than 5 we round down
Here are some examples
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/sats/rounding.htm
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Note added at 2003-05-29 16:22:50 (GMT)
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Number
Rounding up and down
Sometimes we don\'t need to be exact in numbers and we have to make sensible measurements.
If you were to measure the length of a field you might not be interested in the number of centimetres, only how long it is in metres.
For example: a school playing field is 60.35m long. This means that it is 60m and 35cm long: the 35cm does not really count here.
If you were asked how long is it to the nearest metre you would say 60m.
YOU HAVE ROUNDED DOWN THE NUMBER.
We often round to the nearest ten, hundred or thousand depending upon what we are measuring.
How do we know whether to round up or down?
This is the easy bit.
if the last number is 5 or above we round up
If the last number is less than 5 we round down
Here are some examples
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/sats/rounding.htm
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rounding down or rounding off and rounding up
rounding down and rounding off sono sinonimi per arrotondamento per difetto.
Picchi, Dizionario Economico
Picchi, Dizionario Economico
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