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Old 07-17-2008
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Humm, if you really want to round 10.8/5 to an integer the answer should be 2 not 3. What you are looking for is to round up i.e. ceil(10.8/5)

Code:
$ num=2.16
$ print $((floor(num)))
2
$ print $((ceil(num)))
3
$