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Rounding Up or Rounding Down...

Should of told them to get an engineer to calculate the load on the system.

Got a 99 occupant bar on 700 gallon system and the engineer determined max flow at less than 400 gallons. Somehow the county bought off on it. Go figure.
 
TJacobs said:
I always use the complete decimal measurements to calculate square footage but I always round the result down in occupant load/exiting calculations. There is no such thing as .5 person.
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Couldn't say it better myself!

(and I think I may have tried).
 
I use the whole number. One occupant more gives you a maximum of 0.3 of an inch more exiting width.
 
Sorry, by the "whole" number I didn't mean including the fraction, I meant the other whole number.
 
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