Why does .NET use banker's rounding as default?

Question

According to the documentation, the decimal.Round method uses a round-to-even algorithm which is not common for most applications. So I always end up writing a custom functi

Answer 1

Use another overload of Round function like this:

decimal.Round(2.5m, 0,MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero)

It will output 3. And if you use

decimal.Round(2.5m, 0,MidpointRounding.ToEven)

you will get banker's rounding.