MySQL Bugs: #66816: Wrong rounding term in documentation

Bug #66816	Wrong rounding term in documentation
Submitted:	14 Sep 2012 10:00	Modified:	21 Sep 2012 11:04
Reporter:	Anton Avramov	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Documentation	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:		OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	away from zeor, half up, round, Rounding

Description:
The documentation for round function states: 
For exact-value numbers, ROUND() uses the "round half up" rule: A value with a fractional part of .5 or greater is rounded up to the next integer if positive or down to the next integer if negative. (In other words, it is rounded away from zero.) A value with a fractional part less than .5 is rounded down to the next integer if positive or up to the next integer if negative.
Which means 23.5 would be round to 24 and -23.5 would be rounded to -24. 
However if we see the definition described in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_up 
Half up would round to -23. 
The corrent rounding term in the documentation that aplies to mysql would be: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_away_from_zero
"Round half away from zero"

How to repeat:
Open documentation pages like: 
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/precision-math-rounding.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mathematical-functions.html#function_round

And for any earlier version

Suggested fix:
Change "round half up" in documentation to Round half away from zero.

Thank you for the report.

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