[Haskell-cafe] round function

[J. Garrett Morris]

Ah, okay.  I misinterpreted.. I was thinking of round, just moving the
other direction from the decimal point.

 /g

On 2/12/06, Sebastian Sylvan <sebastian.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/13/06, J. Garrett Morris <trevion at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think the function you're looking for is:
> >
> > myRound n places = round (n / fromIntegral factor) * factor
> >     where factor = 10 ^ (places - 1)
> >
>
> This gives:
> *Main> myRound 123123.123 2
> 123120
>
> Whereas my (revised) version gives
>
> *Main> myround 123123.123 2
> 120000.0
>
> I may be wrong, but I think it's this latter result he's looking for(?).
>
> /S
>
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