[Haskell-cafe] Problem with percentage function?

[Chapman, Anthony Sergio]

Thank you very much, that worked a charm. The numbers crunching was done way before the printing so that's all I needed. Now it seems a bit peculiar to me that in your functions, you didn't define the input ie toPerc = printf "%.2f" . (*100) instead of toPerc number = printf "%.2f" . (*100)

Would you might pointing me in the right direction to understand why you didn't have to give it a variable input when defining the function? 

Thanks again. 
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From: Haskell-Cafe <haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org> on behalf of Tom Ellis <tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk>
Sent: 20 April 2014 22:45
To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problem with percentage function?

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 09:12:29PM +0000, Chapman, Anthony Sergio wrote:
> -- Turns a number into a percentage
> toPerc :: Double -> Double
> toPerc x = 100*(myRound x 4)
> -- Rounds a number to s decimal points
> myRound n s = fromIntegral (round (n * factor)) / factor
>     where factor = fromIntegral (10^s)
>
> I would it to round to 2 decimal places no matter what the size of the input is
>
> ei toPerc 0.22222222222222  --- = 22.22
>     toPerc 0.22342222222222  --- = 22.34
>
> The problem is that what I actually get is 22.220000000000002

The other replies, whilst correct, have been a bit oblique to your question.
The upshot is you should do the rounding when displaying, not in the
floating point value itself.


import Text.Printf

toPerc :: Double -> String
toPerc = printf "%.2f" . (*100)

*Main> toPerc 0.22222222222222
"22.22"
*Main> toPerc 0.22342222222222
"22.34"


Tom
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