Rounding up a number to nearest multiple of 5

Question

Does anyone know how to round up a number to its nearest multiple of 5? I found an algorithm to round it to the nearest multiple of 10 but I can\'t find this one.

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Answer 1

In case you only need to round whole numbers you can use this function:

public static long roundTo(long value, long roundTo) {
    if (roundTo <= 0) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Parameter 'roundTo' must be larger than 0");
    }
    long remainder = value % roundTo;
    if (Math.abs(remainder) < (roundTo / 2d)) {
        return value - remainder;
    } else {
        if (value > 0) {
            return value + (roundTo - Math.abs(remainder));
        } else {
            return value - (roundTo - Math.abs(remainder));
        }
    }
}

The advantage is that it uses integer arithmetics and works even for large long numbers where the floating point division will cause you problems.