Re: round to nearest 500?

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 11:59 -0500, Jon Anderson wrote: > blackwater dev wrote: > > Is there an easy way in php to round to the nearest 500? > > > > So if I have 600, I 500 and if I have 800 I want 1000? > Multiply by 2, round to 1000, divide by 2. Maybe there's an easier way, > but that's what I use. > > 600*2 = 1200, round(1200,-3) = 1000, 1000/2 = 500 > 800*2 = 1600, round(1600,-3) = 2000, 2000/2 = 1000 That's cool, I was too lazy to read the docs so I didn't notice you could do negative precision :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'