Cycling '74

is it me, or surely 0.99999 should round to 1, not 0?

can you round stuff (in the way i would expect) inside the expr object?

i don't like having to come out and into [sprintf %.f] (and by-the-way, where does that come from? not the max docs)

rounding

Rounding doesn't exist in Max (just like many other programming languages), but you can invent it: add 0.5 and convert to int.

to get around max "rounding" (e.g. truncating) add 0.5 to the values beforehand.

> is it me, or surely 0.99999 should round to 1, not 0?

if you're talking about rounding, yes it should round to 1. But Max 

> can you round stuff (in the way i would expect) inside the expr 

sure you can. You need to add 0.5 or substract 0.5 depending on the 

sign of the number, and truncate it. My favorite solution:

unless you want to use the round object ;-)

> i don't like having to come out and into [sprintf %.f] (and by-the- 

> way, where does that come from? not the max docs)

sprintf is to generate strings (concatenation, leading zeros and that 

if you're talking about rounding, yes it should round to 1. But Max  
doesn't do any rounding by default.

> can you round stuff (in the way i would expect) inside the expr  
> object?

sure you can. You need to add 0.5 or substract 0.5 depending on the  
sign of the number, and truncate it. My favorite solution:

unless  you want to use the round object ;-)

> i don't like having to come out and into [sprintf %.f] (and by-the- 
> way, where does that come from? not the max docs)

sprintf is to generate strings (concatenation, leading zeros and that  
kind of stuff).

i'm sure max5 docs are much harder to navigate than 4.

It's also possible to make a patch that rounds to an increment other than one; for instance, the nearest hundredth, or multiple of ten, or multiple of two (useful if you only want even numbers). My version is below. Set the increment with an argument or in the right inlet (default 1).