[Tutor] rounding

[Kim Branson]

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ahhh, the second argument to round. That will do what i want.  It was 
fairly late and i didn't see that argument in the docs. although now i 
look at it in the light of day its there. neat. I've replaced by divide 
by 10 stuff with that.  now i have different bugs to chase :)

cheers
Kim
On 31/01/2005, at 9:37 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:

>
>> The round function will do what you want though not quite what you
> say you want :-)
>>
>>>>> round(15., -1)
>> 20.0
>
> Interesting, I didn't remember the second parameter to round...
> let alone the fact it could be negative!!
>
> Batteries included once again!
>
> Alan G.
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