round down to nearest number

[noydb]

On Feb 10, 4:58 am, Arnaud Delobelle <arno... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 February 2012 06:21, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>>>> (3219 + 99) // 100 * 100
> >> 3300
> >>>>> (3289 + 99) // 100 * 100
> >> 3300
> >>>>> (328678 + 99) // 100 * 100
> >> 328700
> >>>>> (328 + 99) // 100 * 100
> >> 400
>
> >> Those are all rounded up to the nearest 100 correctly.
>
> > One thing to be aware of though is that while the "round down" formula
> > works interchangeably for ints and floats, the "round up" formula does
> > not.
>
> >>>> (3300.5 + 99) // 100 * 100
> > 3300.0
>
> I'm surprised I haven't seen:
>
> >>> 212 - (212 % -100)
>
> 300
>
> Here's a function that:
> * rounds up and down
> * works for both integers and floats
> * is only two operations (as opposed to 3 in the solutions given above)
>
> >>> def round(n, k):
>
> ...     return n - n%k
> ...>>> # Round down with a positive k:
>
> ... round(167, 100)
> 100>>> round(-233, 100
>
> ... )
> -300>>> # Round up with a negative k:
>
> ... round(167, -100)
> 200>>> round(-233, -100)
> -200
> >>> # Edge cases
>
> ... round(500, -100)
> 500>>> round(500, 100)
> 500
> >>> # Floats
>
> ... round(100.5, -100)
> 200.0>>> round(199.5, 100)
>
> 100.0
>
> --
> Arnaud- Hide quoted text -
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Thanks!  Covers all bases, good.