roundUp function?

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 09:39:00 EST 2016


Actually, .4 I guess.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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