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largest remainder method algorithm

A PHP implementation of the largest remainder method algorithm. This method is the most common way to get rid of rounding issues when working with rounded percentage values.

The problem

Assume the following example:

18.562874251497007%
20.958083832335326%
18.562874251497007%
19.161676646706585%
22.75449101796407%

When rounding the above percentages using PHP´s rounding functions, we get:

19%
21%
19%
19%
23%

Which in fact sums up to 101% instead of 100%. The largest remainder method solves this issue by doing the following steps:

1. Rounding all values down to the nearest integer value
2. Determining the difference between the sum of the rounded values and total value
3. Distributing the difference between the rounded values in decreasing order of their decimal parts

Installation

composer require "kschu91/largest-remainder-method"

If you are not familiar with composer: composer basic usage

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.3

Basic Usage

$numbers = [
    18.562874251497007,
    20.958083832335326,
    18.562874251497007,
    19.161676646706585,
    22.75449101796407
];

$lr = new LargestRemainder($numbers);

print_r($lr->round());

which results in:

Array
(
    [0] => 19
    [1] => 21
    [2] => 18
    [3] => 19
    [4] => 23
)

Working with decimals aka. precision

The default precision is set to 0. But you can change this behaviour by using the setPrecision method:

$numbers = [
    18.562874251497007,
    20.958083832335326,
    18.562874251497007,
    19.161676646706585,
    22.75449101796407
];

$lr = new LargestRemainder($numbers);
$lr->setPrecision(2);

print_r($lr->round());

which results in:

Array
(
    [0] => 18.56
    [1] => 20.96
    [2] => 18.56
    [3] => 19.16
    [4] => 22.76
)

Working with complex arrays/objects

Mostly, you don´t have the numbers you want to apply this algorithm on in a simple array as in the examples above. You rather have them in objects or associative arrays. That´s why this library also supports callbacks for applying this algorithm.

You just have to supply 2 callbacks to the usort method. The first one, to fetch the relevant number from the object. And the second one to write the rounded number back to the resulting object.

Make sure to pass the first argument of the setter callback as reference, eg. as in the example below: &$item. If not, the resulting data will maintain their original numbers and are not rounded.

$objects = [
    ['a' => 18.562874251497007],
    ['a' => 20.958083832335326],
    ['a' => 18.562874251497007],
    ['a' => 19.161676646706585],
    ['a' => 22.75449101796407]
];

$lr = new LargestRemainder($objects);
$lr->setPrecision(2);

print_r($lr->uround(
    function ($item) {
        return $item['a'];
    },
    function (&$item, $value) {
        $item['a'] = $value;
    }
));

which results in:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [a] => 18.55
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [a] => 20.94
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [a] => 18.55
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [a] => 19.15
        )

    [4] => Array
        (
            [a] => 22.74
        )

)