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Posted by Jared Williams on 04/29/05 00:45
> I realize this is a dumb question but I just can't come up
> with an equation that will do this and I don't see an
> internal PHP function (for version 4.3) that will do this...
> Basically I need to come up with an equation/algorithm that
> will round any number up/down to the nearest X.
> I tried using
>
> y +/- (y mod x)
>
> but after I started putting in some test numbers, it didn't
> always work. For example,
>
> 37678 + ( 37678 % 500 )
>
> did not round up to the nearest 500.
>
37678 + 500 - (37678 % 500)
Jared
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