how to make sure a result is always rounded UP

[BrashMonkey]

Hi everyone,

I need to define a number of sets of something...

for example, if there are 501 apples, I want mmf to devide 501 into groups of 100, but to know that there are 6 sets...5 sets of 100, and a last set of 1.

So,I want to set the value"sets" to 501/100 and get the value of 6.

any idea how I do this?

thanks

[DavidN]

You can use the floor(), ceil() and round() expressions to round down, up or to the nearest whole number, respectively.

In your example, use ceil(501/100.0) - the division will result in 5.01, which is then rounded up to 6.

The ".0" at the end of 100 is important, as it tells MMF that we don't want the division to be rounded to a whole number too early - without that, 501/100 would work out as 5, and ceil(5) would still be 5.

[BrashMonkey]

Thanks much DavinN,

I really apreciate how helpful you are in the Click community.