Re: rounding average to one decimal point
| From: | Adam Williams | Date: | Mon, 10 May 2004 18:17:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: rounding average to one decimal point | ||
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On Mon, 10 May 2004, Richard Davey wrote:
> Hello Adam,
>
> Monday, May 10, 2004, 7:03:36 PM, you wrote:
>
> AW> Hi, I have a randon group of numbers I need the average of. When I add
> AW> them up and divide by how many there are and print the result, I get a
> AW> lot of decimal places. The number comes out to look like 29.3529411765,
> AW> but I don't need that many decimal places. rounding to one decimal place
> AW> will be fine. anyway to trim off the excess decimal values?
>
> Try the round() function? :)
>
> ceil() and floor() might help if you decide you don't want the extra
> decimal places too.
>
>
i didn't know about round(), guess i should check php.net/round next time
;) thanks!