round : Java Glossary

round
To take a float or double and want the corresponding integer (possibly as a float, double, int or long) there are five basic algorithms you might use: round, ceil, floor, truncate and cover. In elementary school you learned that rounding always involves 0.5. Java and the IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers) use the term in a more general sense to describe any way a number is converted from floating point to integer.

DecimalFormat automatically rounds output to the displayed number of decimal places, so there is nothing to do if you are rounding simply to make output look pretty.

Integer Division Cover
Round Rounding Gotcha
Ceiling Rounding to a Multiple
Floor Rounding Currency
Truncate Links

Rounding Gotcha

Rounding to a Multiple

// rounding m up to next highest multiple of n
int ceil = ( m + n - 1 ) / n * n;

// rounding m down to multiple of n
int floor = m / n * n;

// rounding m to nearest multiple of n
int near = ( m + n/2 ) / n * n;

Rounding Currency


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