I do not know of a single command that will do that, though the
http://uk.php.net/round command will work round($number, 2);

On 02/08/06, Gordon Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi there, I've come accross a situation, where I am subracting amounts
>  from each other - it SHOULD come to whole cents, but im getting
>  strange results :-
>
>  CODE :-
>
>  echo "MIN MAX '$min'$max'<BR>\n";
>  if($max-$min<0.02){
>  echo ($max-$min)."<BR>\n";
>
>  (Basically i want to know if its less than 2 cents difference)
>
>  What I get on the screen is :-
>
>  MIN MAX '5864.51'5864.53'
>  0.0199999999995
>
>  Now - according tomy maths - 5864.51 subtract 5864.53 should be two cents..
>  not 1.999999995 cents..
>
>  Is there a single command at the top of my script to 'round' the
>  figures to the nearest two decimal places / cent? (or after each
>  calculation ?)
>
>  --
>  G
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