Round()

Description

FUNCTION: round(number,places)

Rounds number to places positions right of the decimal point. places may be negative in which case the rounding occurs in the ones, tens, hundreds, etc. place.

Related Topics: fdiv(), floor(), mod(), trunc().

Examples

> say round(5.123,1)

You say “5.1”

> say round(9.8765,3)

You say “9.877”

> say round(5.5,0)

You say “6”

> say round(-5.5,0)

You say “-6”

> say round(520,-3)

You say “1000”

(–Soylent 00:59, 3 December 2005 (EST))