Re: Round to the nearest X
| From: | Greg Donald | Date: | Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:36:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Round to the nearest X | ||
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On 4/28/05, Chris Boget <chris.boget@wild.net> wrote:
> I realize this is a dumb question but I just can't come
> up with an equation that will do this and I don't see an
> internal PHP function (for version 4.3) that will do this...
> Basically I need to come up with an equation/algorithm
> that will round any number up/down to the nearest X.
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$num = isset( $_SERVER[ 'argv' ][ 1 ] )
? $_SERVER[ 'argv' ][ 1 ]
: 0;
do {
$num++;
} while( $num % 500 );
echo $num;
?>
> ./round.php 499
500
> ./round.php 501
1000
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Greg Donald
Zend Certified Engineer
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