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Significant figures with nearest integer rounding
// 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
}
(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)}
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.
{
"name": "significantFigures",
"description": "Rounds a number to the given number of significant figures.",
"keywords": [
"math",
"rounding",
"significant_figures"
]
}
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
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There's an outstanding issue. sigFigs(5, 3) should yield "5.00", not "5".

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atesgoral commented Jan 26, 2017

Fixed the mantissa issue. Now sigFigs(5, 3) correctly yields "5.00".

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Thanks to @paracycle for pointing out that this is specifically a "nearest integer rounding" flavour.

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