On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:26:34 -0600, Tim Chase wrote: >> How can you make python round numbers to the nearest 5: >> >> Example: >> >> 3 => 0 >> 8 => 10 >> 23.2 => 20 >> 36 => 35 >> 51.5 => 50 > > I'm not sure *any* rounding system will give those results.
Round towards zero. > 3 should round up to 5 (not down to 0) That would be round to nearest. > result = int(round(x / 5.0) * 5) I think that should work. It even works for negative values: >>> int(round(-2.2 / 5.0) * 5) 0 >>> int(round(-2.7 / 5.0) * 5) -5 -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
