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Re: How do I round a number?

by 5mi11er (Deacon)
on Apr 27, 2005 at 16:54 UTC ( [id://452025]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do I round a number?

I was looking for a ceil(x,y) function similar to what exists in excel, where x is the thing to round, and y is "significance" according to Excel v9 (Office 2000), I prefer to think of it as "interval".

But, I was also intrigued by several of the other answers given (found via supersearch), and then in a fit of playing around, I created several variations below.

My personal restrictions were to use math operations, and not rely on other modules. This eliminated the printf and POSIX answers.

use strict; use warnings; ######## # This version takes two arguments # The number to round # And the number of places to the right or left of the decimal poin +t # Positive numbers to the left, negative numbers to the right. # Think powers of 10. # # Parts of this were stolen from nodeid=8781, and nodeid=1873 # most notably from Roy Johnson and wrvhage ######## sub round { my ($number, $places) = @_; my $sign = ($number < 0) ? '-' : ''; my $abs = abs($number); if($places < 0) { $places *= -1; return $sign . substr($abs+("0." . "0" x $places . "5"), 0, $places+length(int($abs))+1); } else { my $p10 = 10**$places; return $sign . int($abs/$p10 + 0.5)*$p10; } } ######## # Simple Ceiling function ######## sub ceil { my ($num) = @_; return int($num) + ($num > int($num)); } ######## # Function modeled after Excel's two argument function # Number to act on # Interval to return (2 would return only multiples of 2, 3 multipl +es of 3 etc) ######## sub ceil_xl { my ($num,$interval) = @_; return ceil($num / $interval) * $interval; } ######## # Function derived from node_id=270920 # Returns next nearest mulitple of 5 up to 50, then nearest 25 up t +o 100, # then nearest quarter of current power of 10. ######## sub ceil_qtrs { my ($num) = @_; my $abs=int(abs($num)); my $interval; # This next line was the originally given answer from Abigail-II, # it was obtuse enough that I needed to break it down to fully unders +tand it, # then I wanted to modify it, and I then left my version in the more +readable # style. # my $frac = $num < 100 ? 5 : (1 . ("0" x (length ($num) - 1))) / + 4; if($abs < 40) { $interval = 5; } elsif($abs < 100) { $interval = 25; } else { $interval = "1".("0"x(length($abs)-1)); $interval = $interval/4; } return ceil($num / $interval) * $interval; } my @data = qw(1 2 3.14159 4.634 5 5.165 6 9 10 10.257 13 23 89 99 100 +101 214 702 1328 -1 -2 -3.14159 -4.634 -5 -5.165 -6 -9 -10 -10.257 -13 -23 -89 -99 - +100 -101 -214 -704 -1328 ); my $format = " "."%13.13s "x8 . "\n"; printf ($format, "number","ceil_qtrs","ceil_xl(x,3)","ceil_xl(x,8)","c +eil(x)","round(x,0)","round(x,1)","round(x,-2)"); foreach (@data) { printf ("%13.13s ",$_); printf ("%13d ",ceil_qtrs($_)); printf ("%13d ",ceil_xl($_,3)); printf ("%13d ",ceil_xl($_,8)); printf ("%13d ",ceil($_)); printf ("%13d ",round($_,0)); printf ("%13d ",round($_,1)); printf ("%13.3f ",round($_,-2)); print "\n"; }

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Re: Answer: How do I round a number?
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Apr 27, 2005 at 17:56 UTC
    See also ikegami's scratchpad (look for "Rounding"). Make sure your solutions work under all the same conditions.

    Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.
      Wow, that's quite a scratchpad, thanks.

      So, I hadn't thought much about negative numbers. Is it mathematically correct for the ceiling function to go to the next more negative number (to the left on a number line) or to truncate (ie int) a negative number (move toward the right on a number line)?

      I think the rounding functions for negative numbers are correct (don't need adjusting), you're simply moving toward the nearest whole number...

      -Scott

      Update: As further discussed below, the code did originally have issues, the code in the answer above has now been replaced by working code.

        ceil should always round toward the right on a number line, so your ceil is correct. In fact, it's the same thing I came up with in Re^2: Perl oddities. Note merlyn's response, though.

        Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.

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