Re: Rounding

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From: Brian Tkatch
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 00:00

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On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:36:26 -0000, "agent-blue"
<agent_blue_17m@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>I am writing a script that is dividing numbers
>
>as a result I can get a very long  number as it contains many numbers after
>the decimal point
>
>I know you can use floor() to drop everything after the decimal point and
>ceil() to round 13.2  up to 14
>but how  can I get
>
>2.8603515625  to be rounded to 2.86 ?
>
I believe the round function does just that with its second parameter.
<URL:http://www.php.net/manual/function.round.php>.

If you actually wanted to use floor or ceil then just move the decimal
point with the power of ten.

$Num = (Floor($Num * 100)/100)


Brian

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Subject: Re: Rounding
Date: 2000/11/07
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