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in reply to OT: Integer rounding?

After a bit more googling i found the answer:
dataless <dataless767@hotmail.com> wrote in article <a8liar$m91$1@helle.btinternet.com>... > Hi all, > Can anyone recommend an algorithm to round an integer to the nearest + 5 or > 10? Let's round n to the nearest five first: Divide n by 5 Add 0.5 to n Discard the fractional part of n Multiply n by 5 Now let's round to the nearest ten: Divide n by 10 Add 0.5 to n Discard the fractional part of n Multiply n by 10 Now let's round to the nearest seven: Divide n by 7 Add 0.5 to n Discard the fractional part of n Multiply n by 7 Do you see a pattern? -- Bringing you today's technology tomorrow...
or in perl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $prec = 5; my $number = 32; $\="\n"; print int(($number/$prec)+.5)*$prec;
smaller, anyone?