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mark66
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Hi all,

I need the result of a calculation to always round up to the next whole number.

Example: I need to work out how many weeks a given number of days spanned:

So I need 22/7 to equal 4 not 3.14285 or 3.

Thanks

Mark


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Prarie
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This is an IBI example

DEFINE FILE CAR
ROUND1/D10.2 = RCOST/1000;
ROUND2/D5= INT(ROUND1+1) ;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR RCOST ROUND1 ROUND2
END


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Leah
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Looks as if you need to do some math figuring, if you calculate in decimal mode add .9 to the answer and then convert the output to integer which truncates would that work? In math terms

3.12285 + .9 = 4.02285 integer is 4
3.5 + .9 = 4.5 integer is 4

might work for you.


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mark66
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Many thanks Prarie & Leah.

Looks like you both came along at the same time with different solution, both of which work great for me.

I knew it would be something simple, but I was getting hung up on the ROUND function.

Thanks again Smiler


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Danny-SRL
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Mark,
If you always want to round up then you have to beware of two possibilities:
1. your number is a whole number to begin with
2. your number is slightly over a whole number.
I suggest, if your original field is FIELD/D8.2:
WFIELD/D8=INT(FIELD);
UPFIELD/D8=IF FIELD EQ WFIELD THEN FIELD ELSE WFIELD + 1;


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mark66
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Thanks Danny,

I hadn't spotted that. 7 ÷ 1 was equal to 2, not 1. Now corrected.


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susannah
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I might consider a refinement
use one of the MOD functions (DMOD,FMOD,IMOD)
to determine whether or not your remainder really is zero.
Just comparing the FIELD to the WFIELD
isn't quite reliable, because that FIELD may appear to be 8.0 and its integer value ,8, would equal WFIELD, however these D fields carry decimal leave-behinds way down in the 32nd digit (or however far they really go internally ) so a MOD of FIELD/WFIELD will either equal 0 if they are truly equal
or not 0, if they're even a negligible bit off.



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ira
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Try
xdefine/d8.2 = database_field + .05;
ydefine/d8 = int(xdefine);


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