🚀 go-pugleaf

no possibility of being negative... works fairly well with the exception of
a large number of small orders that have barely exceeded the qty
available... A lot of orders for 4 or 8 units against a total of 5000 units
where the total ordered is like 5059... so I would need to reduce the
orders/allocate by about .0117... plays hell... allocates about everything
down to zero... so distributes less then 10 units over the 5000...

I was surprised to see that and am not quite sure how to deal with it.

Back to the drawing board.

I was planning on letting the user deal with the slack.. find some nice way
to present the 4-8 units that didn't get distributed... and put them where
she wants.. she had been doing this all by hand in the past so to get it
that close would be a god-send... but if calculating it is going to make it
worse then doing by hand... no point.

I didn't think it would be that big of a deal until I started actually doing
it.

fun!

b
"Dr John Stockton" <spam@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> JRS:  In article <40119d6f$1@newsgroups.borland.com>, seen in news:borla
> nd.public.delphi.language.objectpascal, Betsy
> <betsy.a.tainer@lesschwab.com> posted at Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:17:17 :-
>
> > but I need a function that will round to the nearest specified
> >integer/multiple
>
> If there is a possibility that the input number may be negative, more
> thought than I have so far seen in this thread is needed.
>
> See <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/pas-chop.htm> and adapt what is
> there in accordance with other answers in this thread, or /vice versa/.
>
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