Round the floating point to nearest halfpoint

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Hi ,
  I want to round the my floating point result into nearest halfpoint
.how to do it.
Example:
   1)My floating point result is 3.3
                      i want it become 3.5
2) My floating point result is 3.6
                      i want it become 4

How can we do it

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I want to round the my floating point result into nearest halfpoint
.how to do it.
Example:
1)My floating point result is 3.3
i want it become 3.5
2) My floating point result is 3.6
i want it become 4

If you are rounding then 3.6 should yield 3.5 because (3.6 - 3.5) <<
(4 - 3.6). Otherwise you want the ceiling function.

How can we do it

irb(main):012:0> [3.3, 3.6].map {|x| (x * 2).round / 2.0}
=> [3.5, 3.5]
irb(main):014:0> [3.3, 3.6].map {|x| (x * 2).ceil / 2.0}
=> [3.5, 4.0]

Btw, I would rather not round float values and use them as they are.
If at all I would usually only round them for output.

Cheers

robert

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2010/5/26 Lucky Nl <lakshmi27.u@gmail.com>:

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Arf, you answered before I did finish my answer.

.. was looking the exact names for rounding in BigDecimal.mode ..

Regards,
B.D.

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On 26 May 2010 15:09, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

robert