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digitalmars.D.learn - Rounding real numbers to X decimal places

reply jicman <cabrera_ _wrc.xerox.com> writes:
Greetings!

Forgive me for this stupid question, but I have searched all over digitalmars
and std.math and I can not find a round(real,places) where real is a real
number and places is an integer suggesting the decimal places to round to.  I
had to do a subroutine for this using std.math.ceil() and some multiplication.
 But, is there a function in std.math, or anywhere to do this?

thanks,

josé
Mar 09 2007
parent Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
jicman wrote:
 Greetings!
 
 Forgive me for this stupid question, but I have searched all over digitalmars
 and std.math and I can not find a round(real,places) where real is a real
 number and places is an integer suggesting the decimal places to round to.  I
 had to do a subroutine for this using std.math.ceil() and some multiplication.
  But, is there a function in std.math, or anywhere to do this?
 
 thanks,
 
 jos�
The lack of such a function probably has something to do with the fact that you can't represent 2.3 exactly in floating point. But integers do have an exact representation. There is a round() function in std.math though. Something like this should work reasonably, as long as you don't let 'places' go too high. static import std.math; real round(real x, uint places) { real pwr = pow(10.0,places); return std.math.round(x * pwr) / pwr; } --bb
Mar 09 2007