Re: Rounding numbers with respect to percentages

Sorry Ron, I meant 33.33 33.33 33.34 It's been a long day... Ignatius ____________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ignatius Reilly" <ignatius.reilly@free.fr> To: "Herhuth, Ron" <Ron.Herhuth@tatumpartners.com>; <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Rounding numbers with respect to percentages > You can't - directly, that is. > > classical example: > > 33.3 > 33.3 > 33.4 > each rounds up to 33.3, total 99.9 > > The only way is to define the nth number as 100.0-sum( round( a(1), 1 ) ... > round( a(n-1), 1 ) ) > > Ignatius > HTH > ____________________________________________ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Herhuth, Ron" <Ron.Herhuth@tatumpartners.com> > To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 7:52 PM > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Rounding numbers with respect to percentages > > > > I am trying to dynamically calculate percentages and return the results > rounded off to the first decimal place. I tried using the > > "round($num,1) " -- but the results don't always add up to 100% > "intval($num)" -- doesn't account for percentages that are less than 1 > "floatval($num) -- doesn't allow me to round off to a specificed decimal > place, which in return gets me back to the same problem as "round" > > How can I round off to the first decimal place making sure they add up to > 100%? > > Thanks, > Ron > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >