Need help with Rounding a number.
I have 3 cells each with a formula in them. Please bear with me while I try to explain this.
Cell D18 contains the formula: =Sum(L18/C5) (L18's value is 58, C5's value is 10), So the value of the cell is 5.8. I need this number to round properly to 6. It does visually on the spreadsheet.
Cell F18 contains the formula: =Sum(E18/F5) (E18=28, F5=8) So the actual value of F18 is 3.5 which is rounded to 4 visually on the spreadsheet.
Cell G18 contains the formula =Sum(D18+F18). (D18 visually displays 6, F18 visually displays 4, therefore G18 should display 10). G18 actually displays 9. For some reason the calculations are still based on the actual calculations of D18 & F18, instead of the rounded displayed numbers. How do I get G18 to display the correct number of 10, rather than the rounded down number of 9?
I'm sure there's a simple fix that I'm just not understanding. I hope I explained my problem well enough, I'd appreciate any help I can get. These numbers are to calculate insulin dosage, so I need to be sure the math is correct.
Thanks in advance for any help!
yvieinca wrote:
I have 3 cells each with a formula in them. Please bear with me while I try to explain this.
Cell D18 contains the formula: =Sum(L18/C5) (L18's value is 58, C5's value is 10), So the value of the cell is 5.8. I need this number to round properly to 6. It does visually on the spreadsheet.
Cell F18 contains the formula: =Sum(E18/F5) (E18=28, F5=8) So the actual value of F18 is 3.5 which is rounded to 4 visually on the spreadsheet.
Cell G18 contains the formula =Sum(D18+F18). (D18 visually displays 6, F18 visually displays 4, therefore G18 should display 10). G18 actually displays 9. For some reason the calculations are still based on the actual calculations of D18 & F18, instead of the rounded displayed numbers. How do I get G18 to display the correct number of 10, rather than the rounded down number of 9?
The explanation is that you don't understand what you are doing.
When you ask numbers to display 0 decimal, you don't ask it to round the contents but to display the rounded value.
A contents remains 3.6 but the display is 4
an other contents may be 3.6 too displaying 4
When you sum, you ask number to add the contents (3.6 + 3.6) which is 7.2 and you ask it to display the rounded value of this result. So you correctly see 7 not 8.
If you want to get what you described, you MUST force Numbers to round.
First,I don't understand how you may invent such a silly thing like =Sum(L8/C5)
You are asking Numbers to sum the result of the division L8/C5 to nothing.
The correct syntax would ask it to calculate the quotient, no less no more.
=L8/C5
but here we need to round so, in D18, enter
=ROUND(L8/C5,0)
in F18, enter
=ROUND(E8/F5,0)
In G18, =Sum(D18+F18) is silly too.
You are asking nummber to sum (D18+F18) and nothing.
The correct formula may be:
=SUM(D18,F18)
or
=D18+F18
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 13 juin 2009 18:05:33)
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Hi, I am in desperate need of help with some issues concerning several forms which we currently use a paid third party (not Adobe) to host and "re-distribute through email"...Somehow I got charged $14.95 for YOUR service, (signed up for a trial, but never used it)..and now I am paying for a year of use of the similar service which Adobe is in control of. I might want to port my form distribution through Adobe in the hopes of reducing the errors, problems and hassles my customers are experiencing when some of them push our "submit button". (and I guess I am familiar with these somewhat from reading what IS available in here, and I also know that, Adobe is working to alleviate some of these " submit" issues, so let's don't start by going backwards, here) I need solutions now for my issues or I can leave it as is, If Adobe's solution will be no better for my end users...
We used FormsCentral to code these forms and it works for the most part (if the end-user can co-operate, and thats iffy, sometimes), but I need help with how to make it go through your servers (and not the third party folks we use now), Not being cruel or racist here, but your over the phone "support techs" are about horrible & I cannot understand them or work with any of them, so I would definitely need someone who speaks English and can understand the nuances of programming these forms, to please contact me back. (Sorry, but both those attributes will be required to be able to help me, so, no "newbie-interns" or first week trainees are gonna cut it).... If you have anyone who fits the bill on those items and would be willing to help us, please contact me back at your earliest convenience. If we have to communicate here, I will do that & I can submit whatever we need to & to whoever we need to.
I need to get this right and working for the majority of my users and on any platform and OS.
You may certainly call me to talk about this, and I have given my number numerous times to your (expletive deleted) time wasting - recording message thingy. So, If it's not available look it up under [email protected]
(and you will probably get right to me, unlike my and I'm sure most other folks', "Adobe phone-in experiences")
Thank You,
Michael Corman
VinylCouture
Phenix City, Alabama 36869Well, thanks for writing back...just so you know...I started using Adobe products in 1987, ...yeah...back then...like Illustrator 1 & 9" B&W Macs ...John Warnock's Helvetica's....stuff like that...8.5 x 11 LaserWriters...all that good stuff...I still have some of it working on a mac...much of it was stuff I bought. some stuff I did not...I'm not a big fan of this "cloud" thing Adobe has foisted upon the creatives of the world...which I'm sure you can tell...but the functionality and usefulness of your software can not be disputed, so feel free to do whatever we will continue to pay for, ...I am very impressed with CC PS on the 64 bit PC and perhaps I will end up paying you the stipend that you demand for the other services.
So I guess that brings us to our problem.. a few years back and at the height of the recession and near bankruptcy myself, I was damn lucky and hit on something and began a small arts and crafts supply service to sell my products online to a very "niche market" ...I had a unique product and still sell that product (plus others) online...My website is www.vinylcouture.com...Strange? Yes...but there is a market it seems, for everything now, and this is the market I service...Catagorically, these are 99%+ women that use these "adhesive, sticky backed vinyl products" to make different "craft items" that are just way too various and numerous to go into... generally older women, women who are computer illiterate for the most part...and all this is irrelevant to my problem, but I want you to have every bit of background on this and especially the demographic we are dealing with, so we can get right to the meat of the problem.
OK...So about two years ago, I decided to offer a "plain sheet" product of a plain colored "stick back" vinyl... it is available in multiple quantities of packs ( like 5 pieces, 10 pieces, 15 pieces, in a packi & so on)...and if you are still on my site.. go to any "GO RIGHT TO OUR ORDER PAGE" button, scroll down a little...and then to the "PLAIN VINYL" section...you will see the Weebly website order process.) You can back out from here, I think,..but, anyway this product is available in 63 colors + or - a few. So then the problem is, how do they select their individual colors within that (whatever) pack?... .
So my initial idea was to enable a "selection form" for these "colors" that would be transmitted to me via email as 'part" of the "order process".. We tried getting our customers to submit a " a list" ( something my competitiors still do, lol, poor bastards)......but that..is just unbelievable..I can't even begin to tell you what a freakin' nightmare that was...these people cannot even count to 10, much less any higher... figuring out what colors to list and send me... well, lets just say, it wasn't working......I had to figure out a better way...Something had to be done.
So after thinking this all out, and yeah...due to my total ignorance, i figured that we could make a form with Live Cycle Designer (Now Forms Central)...(back then something that was bundled with Adobe Acrobat Pro), I believe, and thats what this thing was authored in... and it would be all good...LOL!
Well not so simple...as you well know, Adobe Acrobat would NOT LET YOU EMAIL anything from itself.....it just wouldn't work (and I know why, and all that hooey), but not being one to take NO for answer,.I started looking for a way to make my little gizmo work.. So I found this company that said they can "hijack" (re-direct actually) the request to email, bypass the wah-wah, and re-transmit it to the proper parties.....for less than $100 a year, I think...its called http://pdf-fillableforms.com/.
A nice gentleman named Joseph Silva helped us program the thing to go to his servers and back out. Please dont hassle them...I need them...for now..it basically does work...try it...you should get back a copy of the form that you filled out...good luck however, if you're on MAC OSX or similar...
I have included a copy of both of our forms (and feel free to fill it out and play with it)...just put test somewhere on it...(and you must include YOUR email or it will balk)..they are supposed to be mostly identical, except one seems to be twice as large....generating a 1.7 meg file upon submission, while the other one only generates a 600K file or so...thats another issue for another day or maybe you can advise on that also...
OK so far so good......In our shop, once Grandma buys a 10 pack (or whatever), Only then she gets to the link on her receipt page ro the relevant "selection form" ,(this prevents "Filling and Sending" with "no order" and "no payment", another early problem we had)... which they can click on and it will usually download and open up on their device if all goes well...Then our little form is supposed to be fillable and is supposed to ADD UP all the quantities, so grandma knows how many she is buying and so forth right on the fly, and even while she changes her mind..., and IT'S LARGE so grandma can see it, and then it TOTALS it all up for them, ( cause remember, they can NOT add).., except there is a programming bug (mouse-click should be a mouse-up probably or something..) which makes you click in the blank spaces to get to a correct TOTAL...about 70-80% of our customers can enable all these features and usually the process completes without problems for them especially on PC's running Windows OS and Acrobat Reader X or XI...at least for most... Unfortunately it is still not the "seamless process" I would like or had envisioned for the other folks out there that do have trouble using our form.... Many folks report to us the following issues that we know of. First of all it takes too much time to load up...We know its HUGE...is there anyway that you can see, to streamline this thing? I would love for it to be more compact...this really helps on the phones and pads as I'm sure you well know.
Some just tell us,"it WON'T work"....I believe this is because they are totally out of it and dont even have Adobe Reader on their machine, & don't know how to get it ( yes, we provide the links).....or it's some ancient version....no one can stop this one...
It almost always generates some kind ( at least one time) of "error message" which we do warn them about..., telling one, basically that "Acrobat doesnt even like this happening at all, and it could be detrimental to ones computer files", blah-blah...(this freaks grandma out really bad)...& usually they end up not even trying to send it... and then I get calls that even you wouldn't believe...& If they DO nut up and push the Red "Submit Form" button, it will usually send the thing to us (and also back to them at the "required email address" they furnished on the form, thats what the folks at the "fillable forms place" do) so, if it's performing it's functions, why it is having to complain?. What are we doing wrong?....and how can I fix it?...Will re-compiling it or saving it as a newer version of "FormsCentral" correct any of these problems ?
Ok, so that should keep you busy for a minute and we can start out with those problems...but the next thing is, how can I take advantage of YOUR re-direct & hosting services?, And will it get rid of the error messages, and the slowness, and the iOS incompatibilities ? (amazingly, the last iOS Reader version worked almost OK.. but the newest version doesnt seem to work with my form on my iphone4) If it will enable any version of the iOS to send my form correctly and more transparently, then it might be worth the money...$14.95 a MONTH you say. hmmmmm...Better be good.
Another problem is, that I really don't need 5000 forms a month submitted. I think its like 70-100 or less....Got any plans for that? Maybe I'm just not BIG ENOUGH to use Adobe's services, however in this case, I really don't care whose I do use as long as the product works most correctly for my customers as well as us. Like I said, If I'm doing the best I can, I won't change anything, and still use the other third party, If Adobe has a better solution, then i'm all for that as well. In the meantime, Thanks for any help you can provide on this...
Michael Corman
VinylCouture.com
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I need help with shooting in my flash game for University
Hi there
Ive tried to make my tank in my game shoot, all the code that is there works but when i push space to shoot which is my shooting key it does not shoot I really need help with this and I would appriciate anyone that could help
listed below should be the correct code
//checking if the space bar is pressed and shooting is allowed
if(evt.keyCode == 32 && shootAllow){
//making it so the user can't shoot for a bit
shootAllow = false;
//declaring a variable to be a new Bullet
var newBullet:Bullet = new Bullet();
//changing the bullet's coordinates
newBullet.y = tank_mc.y + tank_mc.width/2 - newBullet.width/2;
newBullet.x = tank_mc.x;
//then we add the bullet to stage
addChild(newBullet);
listed below is my entire code
import flash.display.MovieClip;
//declare varibles to create mines
//how much time before allowed to shoot again
var cTime:int = 0;
//the time it has to reach in order to be allowed to shoot (in frames)
var cLimit:int = 12;
//whether or not the user is allowed to shoot
var shootAllow:Boolean = true;
var minesInGame:uint;
var mineMaker:Timer;
var cursor:MovieClip;
var index:int=0;
var tankMine_mc:MovieClip;
var antiTankmine_mc:MovieClip;
var maxHP:int = 100;
var currentHP:int = maxHP;
var percentHP:Number = currentHP / maxHP;
function initialiseMine():void
minesInGame = 15;
//create a timer fires every second
mineMaker = new Timer(6000, minesInGame);
//tell timer to listen for Timer event
mineMaker.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, createMine);
//start the timer
mineMaker.start();
function createMine(event:TimerEvent):void
//var tankMine_mc:MovieClip;
//create a new instance of tankMine
tankMine_mc = new Mine();
//set the x and y axis
tankMine_mc.y = 513;
tankMine_mc.x = 1080;
// adds mines to stage
addChild(tankMine_mc);
tankMine_mc.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveHorizontal);
function moveHorizontal(evt:Event):void{
evt.target.x -= Math.random()*5;
if (evt.target.x >= stage.stageWidth)
evt.target.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveHorizontal);
removeChild(DisplayObject(evt.target));
initialiseMine();
//declare varibles to create mines
var atmInGame:uint;
var atmMaker:Timer;
function initialiseAtm():void
atmInGame = 15;
//create a timer fires every second
atmMaker = new Timer(8000, minesInGame);
//tell timer to listen for Timer event
atmMaker.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, createAtm);
//start the timer
atmMaker.start();
function createAtm(event:TimerEvent):void
//var antiTankmine_mc
//create a new instance of tankMine
antiTankmine_mc = new Atm();
//set the x and y axis
antiTankmine_mc.y = 473;
antiTankmine_mc.x = 1080;
// adds mines to stage
addChild(antiTankmine_mc);
antiTankmine_mc.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveHorizontal);
function moveHorizontal_2(evt:Event):void{
evt.target.x -= Math.random()*10;
if (evt.target.x >= stage.stageWidth)
evt.target.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveHorizontal);
removeChild(DisplayObject(evt.target));
initialiseAtm();
function moveForward():void{
bg_mc.x -=10;
function moveBackward():void{
bg_mc.x +=10;
var tank_mc:Tank;
// create a new Tank and put it into the variable
// tank_mc
tank_mc= new Tank;
// set the location ( x and y) of tank_mc
tank_mc.x=0;
tank_mc.y=375;
// show the tank_mc on the stage.
addChild(tank_mc);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onMovementKeys);
//creates the movement
function onMovementKeys(evt:KeyboardEvent):void
//makes the tank move by 10 pixels right
if (evt.keyCode==Keyboard.D)
tank_mc.x+=5;
//makes the tank move by 10 pixels left
if (evt.keyCode==Keyboard.A)
tank_mc.x-=5
//checking if the space bar is pressed and shooting is allowed
if(evt.keyCode == 32 && shootAllow){
//making it so the user can't shoot for a bit
shootAllow = false;
//declaring a variable to be a new Bullet
var newBullet:Bullet = new Bullet();
//changing the bullet's coordinates
newBullet.y = tank_mc.y + tank_mc.width/2 - newBullet.width/2;
newBullet.x = tank_mc.x;
//then we add the bullet to stage
addChild(newBullet);
if (tank_mc.hitTestObject(antiTankmine_mc))
//tank_mc.gotoAndPlay("hit");
currentHP -= 10;
// remove anti tank mine
removeChild(antiTankmine_mc);
if (tank_mc.hitTestObject(tankMine_mc))
//tank_mc.gotoAndPlay("hit");
currentHP -= 10;
// remove anti tank mine
removeChild(tankMine_mc);
//var maxHP:int = 100;
//var currentHP:int = maxHP;
//var percentHP:Number = currentHP / maxHP;
//Incrementing the cTime
//checking if cTime has reached the limit yet
if(cTime < cLimit){
cTime ++;
} else {
//if it has, then allow the user to shoot
shootAllow = true;
//and reset cTime
cTime = 0;
function updateHealthBar():void
percentHP = currentHP / maxHP;
healthBar.barColor.scaleX = percentHP;
if(currentHP <= 0)
currentHP = 0;
trace("Game Over");
updateHealthBar();USe the trace function to analyze what happens and what fails to happen in the code you showed. trace the conditional values to see if they are set up to allow a shot when you press the key
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