RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: What is a good way to round up numbers in free form?

I misread what CEILING did
I thought you could use decimal places
Now that I have re-read it (a couple of times) - I stand corrected

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From: John Yeung [mailto:gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 1:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: What is a good way to round up numbers in free form?

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 1:39 PM Alan Shore via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Justin replied earlier - and suggested using the SQL command CEILING

Well, if you are rounding specifically to zero decimal places, toward positive infinity, then sure. Correspondingly, you can get *some* of the rounding functionality with FLOOR and TRUNCATE.

But rounding to arbitrary decimal places, or niche modes like half-down or away-from-zero, require you to compose your own (not too hard, given the available building blocks), or set the rounding mode and use QUANTIZE.

John Y.