- somewhere in between allows a user to specify how many digits to round off eg. .750 >> .75, 143.23123576 >> 143.231
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It might be more useful to let a user specify the number of significant digits. This should give much more consistent results.
How about to within an error margin...
You lose alot more detail rounding 1.4444 -> 1 rather than rounding 1.9999 -> 2
Maybe what is needed is a kind of 'normalise'.
Think of a particularly bad case for rounding, say a rectangle with the left side with an X of 1.5 and the other at 3.0 Say you rounded to 0dp, then the left side moves 30%, but the right side moves 0. I wonder if you could not massage the points a bit so they both move around the same sort of amount.
Would this preserve the 'image' better?! (*shrug*)
-kt
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