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rounding in between orders of magnitude

Open debrouwere opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

Quantize to somewhere in between a magnitude.

For example:

  • ceil(55.25, 1.2) => 55.26
  • floor(55.25, 1.2) => 55.24
  • round(55.3333, 2.5) => 55.335
  • round(12.345, 1.1) == round(12.345, 2) == 12.34

Note that quantization beyond an order of magnitude results in a variable amount of decimal digits depending on the lowest common multiple.

For example:

  • floor(1.2341234, 1.25) == 1.225
  • floor(1.2341234, 1.50) == 1.20

debrouwere avatar Apr 12 '18 08:04 debrouwere

This kind of quantization is often useful when producing charts: when the maximum value is 117K, the axis should preferably go from 0 to 120K or 0 to 125K instead.

Should support round, ceil, floor, min and max.

debrouwere avatar Apr 12 '18 08:04 debrouwere