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From: jmb@ukc.ac.uk (Mike Bremner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: rounding a real to a whole number
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Date: 9 Nov 90 23:17:52 GMT
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Reply-To: jmb@ukc.ac.uk (Mike Bremner)
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In article <U714092.90Nov1101629@eagle.larc.nasa.gov> u714092@eagle.larc.nasa.gov (prichard devon ) writes:

>what I want to do is to have a subroutine which, given a range of real
>numbers, for example  -123.445 -> 1033.02 , and choose whole numbers 
>outside that range. obviously the first application is axis values for
>x-y plots.

Applied Statistics algorithm AS 168 - Vol. 30 (1981), p.339 - deals with
scale selection for scatter plots, etc.