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Programmer documentation of rounding explains the software's internal mechanisms. This page explains rounding in customer terms.
A simple example with 1 permit and catch evenly distributed over 4 stat areas (even number of sold catch)
When the amount of sold pounds is an even number, the catch is applied evenly among stat areas (see Example 4).
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In this case effort was evenly distributed among four stat areas, and the catch is evenly distributed, with each stat area getting 1 pound. Each stat area can be expected to get 1 pound when generating IFQ reports.
A simple example with 1 permit and catch evenly distributed over 4 stat areas (odd number of sold catch)
Consider a report with 1 permit and catch of one species distributed over 4 statistical areas. (For eLandings staff, we have a /wiki/spaces/ft/pages/4391021, Example 1, and the result can be viewed in eLandingsTest when logged in as AMACKEREL.)
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