RE: Can you round number to the nearest x?
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- Subject: [mg24912] RE: [mg24871] Can you round number to the nearest x?
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 01:35:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Keith,
RoundBy[n_][x_] := n Round[x/n]
RoundBy[5] /@ {-11.2, -3, 0, 3, 11, 22.1, 25, 29}
{-10, -5, 0, 5, 10, 20, 25, 30}
David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owenzooey at my-deja.com [mailto:owenzooey at my-deja.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> 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
>