digitalmars.D.learn - rounding floats up to specified number of decimal digits
- ref2401 (4/4) Dec 15 2013 I'm seeking for a way to round floats up to specified number of
- John Colvin (12/17) Dec 15 2013 You can quite easily write a function like this:
I'm seeking for a way to round floats up to specified number of decimal digits. e.g. roundToDigits(3.1415, 2) should return 3.14. Is there a standard function for that or what is the most correct way to do that?
Dec 15 2013
On Sunday, 15 December 2013 at 14:35:04 UTC, ref2401 wrote:I'm seeking for a way to round floats up to specified number of decimal digits. e.g. roundToDigits(3.1415, 2) should return 3.14. Is there a standard function for that or what is the most correct way to do that?You can quite easily write a function like this: auto roundToDigits(T x, uint numDigits) { auto s = 10 ^^ numDigits; return round(s * x) / s; } but it will introduce a certain amount of error* as IEE 754 uses base-2, making the multiplation and division inexact. It's probably good enough for some purposes, but take care. If you just want to print out to a particular precision then use std.format/std.stdio
Dec 15 2013