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Delta




PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 1:43 pm   Post subject: Rounding Decimal Numbers?

How do you round to decimal places?
for example how do I round

8.49999999
to
8.5

Please explain. Thank you.
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Paul




PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 2:16 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

isn't it Math.round?
like
code:

System.out.println(x + " is approximately " + Math.round(x));     
Tony




PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 2:53 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

no, Math.round would round to an integer. What you do is you multiply it by 10^number of decimal places, round, and then divide back.

such as
8.499 *10^1
84.99 ~ round
85 /10^1
8.5
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Delta




PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 3:28 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

That's the thing tony... I asked how to round...
Tony




PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 3:30 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

i donno... you can typecast it to an (int) Laughing
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wtd




PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 4:13 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

Do you just need this for formatting text?
zylum




PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 1:10 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

tony wrote:
no, Math.round would round to an integer. What you do is you multiply it by 10^number of decimal places, round, and then divide back.

such as
8.499 *10^1
84.99 ~ round
85 /10^1
8.5


i think tony's way is the only way to do it unless there is some weird function i havent heard of...

code:

double num = 8.4999;
num *= 10;
num = Math.round(num);
num /= 10;
// or just num = Math.round(num * 10) / 10;
System.out.println(num); // gets you 8.5
Dan




PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:12 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

Thats how i do it also. Alougth u whould think there whould be a method for it some where in one of thous java APIs.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:26 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

I always thought there was a round method. But i may be wrong Rolling Eyes
zylum




PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:42 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

there is a round method but it rounds to the nearest one not the nearest tenth.
Delta




PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 8:13 am   Post subject: (No subject)

Ok well I found some nice lil rounding methods... (I believe this was just for rounding so I could display the text)

code:
import java.text.*;

DecimalFormat decF = new DecimalFormat ("###.##");
System.out.println (decF (99999.999999));


also

code:
decF.setMinimumFractionDigits(2);

would set the format to a minimum of two decimal places

code:
decF.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);

would set the format to a maximum of two decimal places

The decimal format thing is only for text as far as I know (for outting it)...

but when it came to storing the value I usually ended up using 'long' instead of 'int' or 'double'... because long would actually round how I wanted it to... never the less... thanks for the help.... Have a nice day.
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