New Math

[Marty Knapp]

Negative numbers aren't a concern. But I also need to round down in the 
same fashion (and would bail out at 0).

Thanks guys,
Marty
> Hmm, 0 and negatives aren't handled properly either way, starting to think
> the proposed loop method might be the easiest method.
>
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins<pepetoo at cox.net>  wrote:
>
>> IN CASE YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE WITH IT, TRY THIS:
>>
>> put ?? into theValue
>> repeat with theValue = theValue+1 to theValue +100
>> IF theValue mod 20 = 0 THEN EXIT REPEAT
>> end repeat
>> put theValue
>>
>> Joe Wilkins
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Marty,
>>>
>>> Just create a repeat loop that increases or decreases the value by 1
>> until it reaches a value where mod 20 of the value = 0; then exit the loop
>> and your value will be divisible by 20. I'll let you code this. This would
>> be very fast and quite simple.
>>> Joe Wilkins
>>>
>>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Marty Knapp wrote:
>>>
>>>> Let's say I have a numeric field and a button to increase the value and
>> a button to decrease the value. When I click the increase button, I want it
>> to increase to the next highest value that is evenly divisible by 20. So if
>> the field has a value of 19, a click will set the value to 20. If the field
>> has a value of 121, a click would increase  it to 140.
>>>> I know I could do it by adding (or subtracting in the case of a
>> decrease) but is there a more elegant and/or faster way to do that?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Marty K