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Re: Can you round number to the nearest x?

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• Subject: [mg24919] Re: [mg24871] Can you round number to the nearest x?
• From: Rob Pratt <rpratt at email.unc.edu>
• Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 01:35:10 -0400 (EDT)
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5 Round[n/5]

10 Round[n/10]

Rob Pratt
Department of Operations Research
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

rpratt at email.unc.edu

http://www.unc.edu/~rpratt/

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 owenzooey at my-deja.com wrote:

> Looking through the standard functions I cannot find a way to round a
> number to the nearest 5 or 10 or whatever.  Is there a somewhat simple
> way to do this before I do it the hard way?
> 
> Keith
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