Date:         Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:16:41 -0400
Reply-To:     Howard Schreier <Howard_Schreier@ITA.DOC.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Howard Schreier <Howard_Schreier@ITA.DOC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Round up Not down

It seems that the data are being recorded in intervals of 1/128, stored to
four decimal places. You want to round to intervals of 1/64, also stored to
four decimal places. You want 9/128 to round up to 5/64 even though it's
already been rounded to something closer to 1/16.

Try

   data a128ths;
   do i = 0 to 128;
      from = round(18 + i/128,0.0001);
      to = round(round(from * 128 + 0.5,2) / 128,0.0001);
      output;
      end;
   run;

The 0.5 is just a somewhat arbitrary term to make sure that knife-edge
values tip the right way.

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:37:20 -0500, Terry J Kohls <tjkohls@VPICORP.COM>
wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>My figure is 18.0703, and it lies just below the median of 18.0625 and
18.0781.
>I want 18.0703 to round up to 18.0781 and not down to 18.0625.  How, using
the
>round function, can I accomplish this?  Maybe the round function is not the
way to
>go.  I'm a newbe.  What other function will work for this.  Fuzz?
>
>Terry
>_____________________________
>Terry J. Kohls
>Lab Technician
>VPI, LLC
>tjkohls@vpicorp.com
>