I need to subdivide a given amount of items (lets say 10) using a given ratio [0.55, 0.45]. The result here should either be 6:4 or 5:5. The usual approach [0.55*10, 0.45*10] would result in [6, 5] (11, not 10). Another example: divide 7 using ratio: [0.36, 0.44, 0.07, 0.07, 0.03, 0.03] which ideally should yield something like [3, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0] or [3, 3, 0, 1, 0, 0]. What would be a good approach to this problem? Continue reading...
