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Significant figures with nearest integer rounding
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// The idea is to: | |
// 1. shift the digits, | |
// 2. round to discard digits, | |
// 3. and shift back to restore magnitude. | |
// Numbers > 10 will be shifted to the right. | |
// Numbers < 10 will be shifted to the left. | |
( | |
n, // the number | |
s, // significant figures to round to | |
p // used as local variable to store power | |
) => { | |
with (Math) // will use a whole bunch of Math members | |
return p = s // compute power | |
- floor( | |
log(abs(n)) / LN10 // log10(abs(n)) | |
) | |
- 1 | |
, // comma operator allows executing all statements without {} | |
s = pow(10, p)// compute "shifter" | |
, // comma operator allows executing all statements without {} | |
(n = round(n * s) / s) // shave off figures using shifter | |
.toFixed(p<0?0:p) // include zeros after decimal for non-negative powers | |
} |
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(n,s,p)=>{with(Math)return p=s-floor(log(abs(n))/LN10)-1,s=pow(10,p),(round(n*s)/s).toFixed(p<0?0:p)} |
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DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE | |
Version 2, December 2004 | |
Copyright (C) 2011 Ates Goral <http://magnetiq.com> | |
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified | |
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long | |
as the name is changed. | |
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE | |
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION | |
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO. |
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{ | |
"name": "significantFigures", | |
"description": "Rounds a number to the given number of significant figures.", | |
"keywords": [ | |
"math", | |
"rounding", | |
"significant_figures" | |
] | |
} |
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var sigFigs = (n,s,p)=>{with(Math)return p=s-floor(log(abs(n))/LN10)-1,s=pow(10,p),(round(n*s)/s).toFixed(p<0?0:p)}; | |
console.log(sigFigs(1234567, 3)); // 1230000 | |
console.log(sigFigs(0.06805, 3)); // 0.0681 | |
console.log(sigFigs(5, 3)); // 5.00 | |
console.log(sigFigs(1.3, 2)); // 1.3 | |
console.log(sigFigs(-1.3, 2)); // -1.3 | |
console.log(sigFigs(-134, 2)); // -130 | |
console.log(sigFigs(-135, 2)); // -130 | |
console.log(sigFigs(-136, 2)); // -140 |
Fixed the mantissa issue. Now sigFigs(5, 3)
correctly yields "5.00"
.
Thanks to @paracycle for pointing out that this is specifically a "nearest integer rounding" flavour.
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There's an outstanding issue.
sigFigs(5, 3)
should yield"5.00"
, not"5"
.