rounding a number...

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 02-05-93 (18:46)             Number: 362
From: FRANCOIS ROY                 Refer#: NONE
  To: CHRIS TRACY                   Recvd: NO  
Subj: rounding a number...           Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

One way to round a number might be:

MyNumber# = 3.14159
Decimals% = 3

Factor# = 10 ^ Decimals%
RoundedNumber# = INT(Factor# * MyNumber# + 0.5) / Factor#

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