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It has been standard in the UK (and I expect in most other countries) to round to the nearest five minutes in everyday usage for the last two hundred years. Prior to that, it was standard to round to the nearest quarter of an hour, and to the nearest hour before that. Modern usage is beginning to round to the nearest minute.
As many decimal places may be used as required for precision, so 0.5 d = 0.500000 d. Fractional days are often calculated in UTC or TT, although Julian Dates use pre-1925 astronomical date/time (each date began at noon = ".0") and Microsoft Excel uses the local time zone of the computer. Using fractional days reduces the number of units in time ...
In both notations, the number of digits indicates the precision. For example, 5 × 10 3 means rounded to the nearest thousand; 5.0 × 10 3 to the nearest hundred; 5.00 × 10 3 to the nearest ten; and 5.000 × 10 3 to the nearest unit. Markup: {} and {} may be used to format exponential notation.
When the only thing was analogue clocks and watches, I was more likely to round off to the nearest five minutes or even to the nearest quarter hour; now if I have a digital watch, I am more likely to say the exact time. Wschart 15:20, 16 September 2015 (UTC) :45 minutes is pronounced as "quarter to", "quarter until", or "quarter till".
The IEEE standard uses round-to-nearest. Round-by-chop: The base-expansion of is truncated after the ()-th digit. This rounding rule is biased because it always moves the result toward zero. Round-to-nearest: () is set to the nearest floating-point number to . When there is a tie, the floating-point number whose last stored digit is even (also ...
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By the time Leonard and Susan married in 1989, he had already appeared in four Star Trek films, with the fifth — Star Trek V: The Final Frontier — due out later that year.While Susan welcomed ...