roundUp function?

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 09:38:26 EST 2016


Kinda pointless since you can use ceiling, but you could go old school and
add .5 to the number, then round to achieve the same affect.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Peter!
>
> ~Roger
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 22/11/2016 14:15, Roger Eller wrote:
> >
> >>  We have round, which will either round up or down depending on the
> >> decimal
> >> value being > or < .5, but what if I want ANY decimal value, even .01 to
> >> round UP to the next whole number?
> >>
> >
> > You probably want to use "the ceiling of <number>", or "the ceil of
> > <number>".
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> >                                      Peter
> >
> > --
> > Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
> > LiveCode Technical Project Manager
> >
> > lcb-mode for Emacs: https://github.com/peter-b/lcb-mode
> >
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