In our daily activities, we may add things in our head to estimate some value to maybe stay within budget or just find some roundabout price.
In this lesson, we are going to show you how to use one of the many instructions included in STEP 7 to do the everyday rounding that you may need inside of your PLC Program.
We have different instructions to round a real value or a value with a fraction to an integer. The different instructions may round your real value up or down depending on the need of your application.
Let’s get rounding shall we!
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