Chris Barker chrishbarker at home.net
Wed Sep 12 18:47:56 EDT 2001

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Christopher Smith wrote:
> ####
> from math import floor,log10
> def Round(x,n=0):
>         if n%1:
>                 d=int(10*n)
>                 return round(x,d-1-floor(log10(abs(x))))
>         else:
>                 return round(x,n)
> 
> print Round(1.23456,2) #returns 1.23
> print Round(1.23456,0.2) #returns 1.2

nifty, I didn't realise you could pass round a negative number of
digits... much cleaner than my version.

-Chris



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