Rounding

[Wayne Wengert]

How do you round numbers in .NET? I have numbers defined as Single and after
some calculations I want to round the result to the nearest tenth so I can
do comparison of results (the rfuzz problem). Does FORMAT round?

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[Jon Skeet]

Re: Rounding

Wayne Wengert <wayne@wengert. org> wrote:[color=blue]
> How do you round numbers in .NET? I have numbers defined as Single and after
> some calculations I want to round the result to the nearest tenth so I can
> do comparison of results (the rfuzz problem). Does FORMAT round?[/color]

If you want to compare results, then I suggest that rather than
rounding you just compare the difference between the expected results
and the ones you've got. You can specify the number of digits when you
format, but that'll use (I believe) bankers' rounding, which may or may
not be what you want.

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[Phil Price]

Re: Rounding

Wayne Wengert wrote:
[color=blue]
> How do you round numbers in .NET? I have numbers defined as Single
> and after some calculations I want to round the result to the nearest
> tenth so I can do comparison of results (the rfuzz problem). Does
> FORMAT round?[/color]

For rounding down:

System.Math.Flo or(myNumber);
For rounding up:
System.Math.Cei ling(myNumber);
For simple rounding (the kind you do in maths classes at school):
System.Math.Rou nd(myNumber);
Obviously these all return int types, and dont effect the parameter
variable.
Peace.
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Phil Price
Student at The University Of Hull

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[Steven Licciardi]

Re: Rounding

If you multiply the number by 10e10 before you round (using the Math.Round
above, or just CInt(num), then divide by 10e10, this will give you 10
decimal places.

Steven

"Phil Price" <phil@philprice .net> wrote in message
news:be9vtr$ih$ 3@newsg4.svr.po l.co.uk...[color=blue]
> Wayne Wengert wrote:
>[color=green]
> > How do you round numbers in .NET? I have numbers defined as Single
> > and after some calculations I want to round the result to the nearest
> > tenth so I can do comparison of results (the rfuzz problem). Does
> > FORMAT round?[/color]
>
> For rounding down:
>
> System.Math.Flo or(myNumber);
> For rounding up:
> System.Math.Cei ling(myNumber);
> For simple rounding (the kind you do in maths classes at school):
> System.Math.Rou nd(myNumber);
> Obviously these all return int types, and dont effect the parameter
> variable.
> Peace.
> --
> Phil Price
> Student at The University Of Hull
> http://www.philprice.net
> http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk[/color]

[Jon Skeet]

Re: Rounding

Phil Price <phil@philprice .net> wrote:[color=blue]
> For simple rounding (the kind you do in maths classes at school):
> System.Math.Rou nd(myNumber);[/color]

No, that's *not* the kind of rounding most people do in maths classes
at school. At least, it certainly isn't the kind of rounding *I*
usually came across. It's bankers' rounding - halves round towards
even, so Math.Round(1.5) =2, Math.Round(2.5) =2, Math.Round(3.5) =4 etc.

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