Scientic rounding functions?

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Is there an equivalent of Perl Math::Round package in Julia?
Math::Round - Perl extension for rounding numbers - metacpan.org

I have found this very useful in the past, the package properly rounds off floating point numbers to a given decimal place.
This very good article https://medium.com/@Jernfrost/defining-custom-units-in-julia-and-python-513c34a4c971
has one place where:
julia> Fahrenheit(3) + Celsius(4) + Kelvin(4)
Kelvin(265.0388888888889)
Erik - great article, and I learned from it. Just that for me that figure should be rounded off…

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Maybe you can specify what is missing in round?

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Mauro, thankyou. Yes of course I shoudl have looked there.
IWill see how the rounding is implemented.

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round(1.65429842, 3) will yield 1.654

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I find this useful sometimes to round to a nearest multiple of something:

roundnearest(num, frac) = round(num * (1/frac)) * frac

julia> using UnicodePlots
julia> lineplot(1:100, roundnearest.(1:100, 25), canvas=AsciiCanvas)
       ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐ 
   100 │                                   F""""│ 
       │                                   |    │ 
       │                                  |     │ 
       │                         _________J     │ 
       │                         |              │ 
       │                        .`              │ 
       │                        |               │ 
       │               r--------f               │ 
       │               |                        │ 
       │              ,`                        │ 
       │              |                         │ 
       │     F"""""""""                         │ 
       │     |                                  │ 
       │    ,`                                  │ 
     0 │.___J                                   │ 
       └────────────────────────────────────────┘ 
       0                                      100

Wouldn’t call it scientific, though (or even ‘scientic’)… :slight_smile: