[Haskell-cafe] round function

[Chatzianastassiou Achilleas]

Ok, i have got it working.

Thanks for the posts


>From: "J. Garrett Morris" <trevion at gmail.com>
>To: sylvan at student.chalmers.se
>CC: Chatzianastassiou Achilleas <achatzianastassiou at hotmail.com>, 
>haskell-cafe at haskell.org
>Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] round function
>Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:46:47 -0500
>
>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
> >
> > --
> > Sebastian Sylvan
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> >
>
>
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