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mattgabor
mattgabor

Reputation: 2084

Round number to nearest "nth" based on first non zero

I want to round a Double to the nearest non zero number that follows the decimal.

For example:

x = 0.002341
rounded = 0.002

x = 0.000048123
rounded = 0.00005

For cases where the base number is > 0, it should perform as such

x = 1.000234
rounded = 1.0002

I know I can use Double(round(1000*x)/1000) if I know the number of digits, but I want it to work for any number. Is there a swift function that does this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1727

Answers (2)

Code Different
Code Different

Reputation: 93181

You haven't specified what happened when x = 1.002341 for examples. Base on your limited cases you can use this:

func myRound (var number : Double) -> Double {
    if number == 0 {
        return number
    }

    let integerPart = floor(number)
    var base = 1.0

    number -= integerPart
    while abs(number) < 1 {
        number *= 10.0
        base *= 10.0
    }

    return integerPart + round(number) / base
}

Upvotes: 1

Sergey Kalinichenko
Sergey Kalinichenko

Reputation: 726809

You can have a little fun with logarithms to solve this:

func roundFirst(x:Double) -> Double {
    if x == 0 {
        return x;
    }
    let mul : Double = pow(10, floor(log10(abs(x))))
    return round(x/mul)*mul
}

The non-fractional part of log10(abs(x)) gives you a positive or negative power of ten of the inverse of the number which you use as your multiplier. floor drops the fraction, and pow(10,...) gives you a multiplier to use in your rounding trick.

I tried this in the playground with a few numbers. Here is what I've got:

println(roundFirst(0.002341))     // 0.002
println(roundFirst(0.000048123))  // 5e-05
println(roundFirst(0.0))          // 0.0
println(roundFirst(2.6))          // 3.0
println(roundFirst(123.0))        // 100
println(roundFirst(-0.002341))    // -0.002
println(roundFirst(-0.000048123)) // -5e-05
println(roundFirst(-2.6))         // -3.0
println(roundFirst(-123.0))       // -100

Upvotes: 3

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