"round down" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to making an approximation by decreasing a number to the nearest whole number or integer. For example, "I need to round down my final grade from 87.5 to an 87."
Couldn't they round down or even up?
"If you're going to round, round down!" There is that laugh again.
Had profits been 0.003 cent lower, WorldCom would have been forced to round down, missing its target by a penny.
Some economists disagree, suggesting that shop keepers might in fact round down in order to avoid moving from a price of, say, $9.99 to $10.
One round down, one to go and I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the debate last night with Nick Clegg.
But some economists disagree, suggesting that shop keepers might well round down in order to avoid moving from a price of, say, $9.99 to $10.
The mapping between the disparity value and tolerable absolute disparity errors is given in Figure 4. Notice that the staircase behavior due to round-down is effectively a quantization.
The watermarked points are transformed into sRGB color space, where the transformation of real numbers into integers (round-up or round-down) is decided so that the influence on is minimized.
In case you missed a couple the first time around, there's a quick round-down of the first seven after the jump.
It can be seen that, the two exponential terms in the above equation cancel each other out and result in unity, under the condition p=leftlfloor frac{2RDelta fN}{c}rightrfloor, kern1em p=0,dots, N-1 (31)where ⌊⋅⌋ represents round-down operation.
While under repair in 1941, Illustriouss rear "round-down" was flattened to increase the usable length of the flight deck to 670 feet.
