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Subject: Re: round down to nearest number
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:23 PM, noydb <jenn.duerr@gmail.com> wrote:
> hmmm, okay.
>
> So how would you round UP always? =C2=A0Say the number is 3219, so you wa=
nt
> 3300 returned.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17944/how-to-round-up-the-result-of-inte=
ger-division/96921

Thus: (3219 + 99) // 100

Slight tangent: Beware negative numbers when using // or %.

Cheers,
Chris