Results for “round”
Small, practical examples. Search by task or narrow things down below.
Wait for a background job before reading its output
Bash Scripts: Save the job PID and wait explicitly before consuming files it produces.
Bash Scripts✓ Tested
Calculate the number of required pages
Python: Use integer arithmetic to round a nonnegative count up to a positive page size.
Python✓ Tested
Center a fixed-size absolute child with auto margins
CSS: An all-zero inset plus auto margins distributes the available space around the child.
CSS✓ Tested
Compare floating-point calculations with tolerance
Python: Use isclose instead of exact equality for results affected by floating-point rounding.
Python✓ Tested
Create private files with a restrictive umask
Linux Commands: Apply umask in a subshell so the surrounding shell is unaffected.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Divide decimal values with controlled precision
Java: Choose both scale and rounding for a quotient that does not terminate in base ten.
Java✓ Tested
Find a median element without fully sorting
C++: nth_element partitions around the element that would occupy the chosen sorted position.
C++✓ Tested
Find the first day of a month
Round a date to its calendar month boundary.
date✓ Tested
Isolate a value with a different writing direction
HTML: Bdi isolates embedded user text so its direction does not reorder surrounding punctuation.
HTML✓ Tested
Keep a tall section inside a local vertical scroller
CSS: A bounded height and overflow auto keep long content from stretching the surrounding page.
CSS✓ Tested
Measure a short delay with micros
Measure elapsed microseconds around a short operation.
micros✓ Tested
Move a box visually without changing its layout slot
CSS: Transforms change the painted geometry while leaving surrounding normal-flow layout unchanged.
CSS✓ Tested