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How to make rounded percentages add up to 100%
// from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13483430/how-to-make-rounded-percentages-add-up-to-100
function foo(l, target) {
var off = target - _.reduce(l, function(acc, x) { return acc + Math.round(x) }, 0);
return _.chain(l).
sortBy(function(x) { return Math.round(x) - x }).
map(function(x, i) { return Math.round(x) + (off > i) - (i >= (l.length + off)) }).
value();
}
foo([13.626332, 47.989636, 9.596008, 28.788024], 100) // => [48, 29, 14, 9]
foo([16.666, 16.666, 16.666, 16.666, 16.666, 16.666], 100) // => [17, 17, 17, 17, 16, 16]
foo([33.333, 33.333, 33.333], 100) // => [34, 33, 33]
foo([33.3, 33.3, 33.3, 0.1], 100) // => [34, 33, 33, 0]
function func( orig, target ) {
var i = orig.length, j = 0, total = 0, change, newVals = [], next, factor1, factor2, len = orig.length, marginOfErrors = [];
// map original values to new array
while( i-- ) {
total += newVals[i] = Math.round( orig[i] );
}
change = total < target ? 1 : -1;
while( total !== target ) {
// select number that will be less affected by change determined
// in terms of itself e.g. Incrementing 10 by 1 would mean
// an error of 10% in relation to itself.
for( i = 0; i < len; i++ ) {
next = i === len - 1 ? 0 : i + 1;
factor2 = errorFactor( orig[next], newVals[next] + change );
factor1 = errorFactor( orig[i], newVals[i] + change );
if( factor1 > factor2 ) {
j = next;
}
}
newVals[j] += change;
total += change;
}
for( i = 0; i < len; i++ ) { marginOfErrors[i] = newVals[i] && Math.abs( orig[i] - newVals[i] ) / orig[i]; }
for( i = 0; i < len; i++ ) {
for( j = 0; j < len; j++ ) {
if( j === i ) continue;
var roundUpFactor = errorFactor( orig[i], newVals[i] + 1) + errorFactor( orig[j], newVals[j] - 1 );
var roundDownFactor = errorFactor( orig[i], newVals[i] - 1) + errorFactor( orig[j], newVals[j] + 1 );
var sumMargin = marginOfErrors[i] + marginOfErrors[j];
if( roundUpFactor < sumMargin) {
newVals[i] = newVals[i] + 1;
newVals[j] = newVals[j] - 1;
marginOfErrors[i] = newVals[i] && Math.abs( orig[i] - newVals[i] ) / orig[i];
marginOfErrors[j] = newVals[j] && Math.abs( orig[j] - newVals[j] ) / orig[j];
}
if( roundDownFactor < sumMargin ) {
newVals[i] = newVals[i] - 1;
newVals[j] = newVals[j] + 1;
marginOfErrors[i] = newVals[i] && Math.abs( orig[i] - newVals[i] ) / orig[i];
marginOfErrors[j] = newVals[j] && Math.abs( orig[j] - newVals[j] ) / orig[j];
}
}
}
function errorFactor( oldNum, newNum ) {
return Math.abs( oldNum - newNum ) / oldNum;
}
console.log( newVals );
return newVals;
}
func([16.666, 16.666, 16.666, 16.666, 16.666, 16.666], 100); // => [16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 17]
func([33.333, 33.333, 33.333], 100); // => [34, 33, 33]
func([33.3, 33.3, 33.3, 0.1], 100); // [34, 33, 33, 0]
func([13.25, 47.25, 11.25, 28.25], 100 ); // [13, 48, 11, 28]
func([13.626332, 47.989636, 9.596008, 28.788024], 100); // => [48, 29, 13, 10]
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