Miscellaneous Toolkit - truncate

Function File: y = truncate (x, order, method)

Function File: y = truncate (…, method)

Truncates X to order of magnitude.

The optional argument method can be a hanlde to a function used to truncate the number. Default is round.

Examples:

    format long
    x = 987654321.123456789;
    order = [3:-1:0 -(1:3)]';
    y = truncate (x,order)
 y =
   987654000.000000
   987654300.000000
   987654320.000000
   987654321.000000
   987654321.100000
   987654321.120000
   987654321.123000

    format
    [truncate(0.127,-2), truncate(0.127,-2,@floor)]
 ans =
    0.13000   0.12000

 

See also: round,fix,ceil,floor.