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发表于 2022-7-8 11:32:56
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Oh, I remember this one. Dates back to when a couple of fellows from Autodesk came in during the early 1980's and visited us, to watch the plotter and digitizer we had working run.
But, we were developing some software at the time, and one of our engineers came in and asked the question. Which way at exactly 1/2 then? One of the future Autodesk visitors said UP. I said towards the even, as then you can cut the number in half, and usually get an interger. Their method was go up, and that is how the code got written circa 1980's. It looks to be one way only, and as of today, is still that way.
This system later on aided them in that you could re-set UNITS, take a fractional number divide by two and get.....
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