Going insane. Simple problem I can't solve.

Hiya.

I just want 2 decimals for my number but I can't get it to work.

stockPrice:169.30
Dividend:8.25

Now I want to calc how much dividend I'd get if the stock price were 100 flat.
So I figure I do 8.25/169.30 = 0.0487...
then 100*0.0487... = 4.87.

Now 4.87 is the result I want.

I try;
damnResult = (Mathf.Round(dividend/stockPrice)*100)/100;
doesnt work, so I break it down to see where I get confused and do 2 separate calcs
but it doenst work anyways. I know this is a simple problem, what am I doing wrong?

 

To get two decimals, you need to do this:
Mathf.Round(num * 100) / 100
So your whole code should look like this:
Mathf.Round(((Mathf.Round(dividend * 100) / 100) / (Mathf.Round(stockPrice * 100) / 100) * 100) * 100) / 100
or, if you turn the double decimal thing into a method:
twoDec(twoDec(dividend) / twoDec(stockPrice) * 100)

Also, if you simplify it, you can do this:
Mathf.Round(Mathf.Round(dividend * 100) / Mathf.Round(stockPrice / 100) * 10000) / 100

 

use 100f, the float version of 100 (edit: ops maybe not)

 

That wouldn't make a difference, as dividend and stockPrice are floats, rounding them results in a float, and dividing a float with an integer also works

 

Thx for the replies guys.

I'm still stuck though, I get the result from your code Gorbit99: 41250. I don't even know how it got that result.

public float price = 169,70;
public float dividend = 8.25;
Debug.Log(Mathf.Round(Mathf.Round(dividend * 100) / Mathf.Round(price / 100) * 10000) / 100);

Result: 4125000

Any ideas?

 

Wait wait!

I just tested the last line of code you had and stepped away for a while.
The first code you had worked as intended. Thank you very much. This is a great forum with lots of helpful people.

 

Just for the record, if this is for display only to 2 digits, it would maybe even be better to use the decimal type for the math, and format the string to show only 2 places.

 

169,70 is actually 169700 and not 169.7

 

No, that's actually an "identifier expected" error

 

My post was crap anyway, because the 169.7 are in the denominator
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Btw, I messed up, it should be price * 100 instead of price / 100, that should remove around 6 zeroes from the result

 

How do I do that then?

 

How do you do what?

The decimal type is better for precision. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/decimal

You can write:

Code (csharp):

1. decimal num = 14.52343M;
2. string str = num.ToString("N2"); // 'str' is now "14.52"

There is a currency format, also, if you scroll down on the page I linked.
I don't always remember every format, unless I want to use it.

 

Thank you so much methos5k.

Gahdangit I've been sitting with this problem for hours and hours and looking at solutions on the web but they all seem to relate to another type of C# with Mathf.round(num,2) to get two decimals and it wont work for me.

But this thing you showed me works so finally I can move on to other things. thx

 

No problem. Perhaps other examples were trying to get a rounded value as a float (or some numerical value), whereas this solution is changing the value when it's represented as a string.

different options for different tasks.

Take care.