Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen,

Use a RoundUp function for n / d. For example,

// n / d rounded up
func RoundUp(n, d int64) int64 {
    if d == 0 {
        return 0
    }
    return (n + (d - 1)) / d
}

https://play.golang.org/p/kEMJ04ggkMc

Peter

On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 6:37:06 AM UTC-4, Martin Møller Skarbiniks 
Pedersen wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 2:09 PM Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen <
>> traxp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have written my first little piece of Go-code.
>>> However it took some time and code for me to divide a int64 by 4 and 
>>> round down. 
>>>
>>> [...]
>>> var bet int64
>>> bet = int64(math.Ceil(float64(cash)/float64(4)))
>>>
>>>  
> On Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:25:23 UTC+2, Kurtis Rader wrote:
>>
>> In addition to Jake's question regarding whether you want to round up or 
>> down I'll point out there isn't any to cast to float64 and back to int64. 
>> If you want to "round down" just divide by four. If you want to "round up" 
>> add one less than the divisor before dividing; e.g., bet := (cash + 3) / 
>> 4. Notice the ":=" which avoids the need for the "var bet int64" statement.
>>
>
>
> OK. Good idea. But what is I need to integer divide with a variable and 
> not the number 4?
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
>  
>
>

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