round() in Developer Help

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Nov 13 2003, 12:24 am
Is there a "true" way to round a number? Like the way we were taught in gradeschool, if the tenths digit is above five, it would round the integer up?
#1 Nov 13 2003, 4:35 am
round(number,1) will round it to the nearest 1. X.5 will be rounded up, anything under it will be rounded down.
#2 Nov 13 2003, 6:16 pm
In response to Cinnom (#1)
What about X.49?
#3 Nov 13 2003, 7:31 pm
In response to Jon88 (#2)
Jon88 wrote:
What about X.49?

That gets rounded down of course.

Lummox JR