Round off a double while maintaining the trailing zero
Round off a double while maintaining the trailing zero
Here is my function to roundoff a number upto two decimals but when the rounded off number is 1.50 it seems to ignore the trailing zero and just returns 1.5
public static double roundOff(double number)
double accuracy = 20;
number = number * accuracy;
number = Math.ceil(number);
number = number / accuracy;
return number;
So if I send 1.499 it returns 1.5 where as I want 1.50
double
double
Maybe your method should return
String, rather than double, so that you can do whatever kind of formatting you want with it.– Dawood ibn Kareem
Jan 8 '15 at 2:50
String
double
Are you sure about that
20? Maybe I misunderstood what you are trying to do, but your method for 1.489 wouldn't return 1.49. I would think you'd want to set accuracy to 100 for two decimal places.– cyon
Jan 8 '15 at 2:59
20
1.489
1.49
100
@cyon, it should round it up to the next multiple of 1/20, so 1.499 will indeed become 1.5. But you're right that it doesn't gel with the "up to two decimals" comment.
– paxdiablo
Jan 8 '15 at 3:06
4 Answers
4
This is a printing poblem:
double d = 1.5;
System.out.println(String.format("%.2f", d)); // 1.50
Got it. Thanks. This helped.
– Nick Div
Jan 8 '15 at 2:53
1.5 is, number of significant digits notwithstanding, the same as 1.50 (and even 1.5000000000000).
1.5
1.50
1.5000000000000
You need to separate the value of the number from its presentation.
If you want it output with two decimal digits, just use String.format, such as with:
String.format
public class Test
public static void main(String args)
double d = 1.50000;
System.out.println(d);
System.out.println(String.format("%.2f", d));
which outputs:
1.5
1.50
If you still want a function that does all that for you and gives you a specific format, you'll need to return the string with something like:
public static String roundOff(double num, double acc, String fmt)
num *= acc;
num = Math.ceil(num);
num /= acc;
return String.format(fmt, num);
and call it with:
resultString = roundOff(value, 20, "%.2f"); // or 100, see below.
This will allow you to tailor the accuracy and output format in any way you desire, although you can still hard-code the values if you want simplicity:
public static String roundOff(double num)
double acc = 20;
String fmt = "%.2f";
num *= acc;
num = Math.ceil(num);
num /= acc;
return String.format(fmt, num);
One final note: your question states that you want to round to "two decimals" but that doesn't quite gel with your use of 20 as the accuracy, since that will round it up to the next multiple of 1/20. If you really want it rounded up to two decimals, the value you should be using for accuracy is 100.
20
1/20
accuracy
100
Thanks, for the detailed explanation.
– Nick Div
Jan 8 '15 at 3:16
In your last little snippet, you have two different variables called
acc (one parameter, one local) and two different variables called fmt. Then you use a variable called accuracy which appears not to exist. You might want to fix this.– Dawood ibn Kareem
Jan 8 '15 at 3:23
acc
fmt
accuracy
@David, damn those cut'n'paste errors :-) Thanks for that, fixed now.
– paxdiablo
Jan 8 '15 at 4:58
Sorry, I really should have just edited it myself. It was clear from the words that you meant those two variables to be locals, not parameters.
– Dawood ibn Kareem
Jan 8 '15 at 5:00
You will have to format it as a String in order to do that. Java, like most languages, will drop the trailing zero.
String
String.format("%.2f", number);
So you can either return a String (change your return type from double) or just format it when you need to display it using the code above. You can read the JavaDoc for Formatter in order to understand all of the possibilities with number of decimal places, comma placement, etc.
String
Thanks, Jean's solution which is the same as your's worked smoothly.
– Nick Div
Jan 8 '15 at 2:54
Just one note, though it doesn't affect the output: the
1 in your format string has little effect here since it sets the minimum field width for the whole thing. Since you're also specifying it be of the form .99, it already has to be more than that.– paxdiablo
Jan 8 '15 at 2:56
1
.99
Thanks @paxdiablo. I had it as something different (formatted with comma separator which I use personally) and then changed it to be simpler and in my haste left the "1." in. Corrected now, thank you!
– Todd
Jan 8 '15 at 2:57
You can try this if you want is a String output
double number = roundOff(1.499);//1.5
DecimalFormat decimalFormat = new DecimalFormat("#.00");
String fromattedDouble = decimalFormat.format(number);//1.50
The function roundOff is the same as you mentioned in your question.
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There isn't a separate
doublefor 1.5 and for 1.50. They're numerically the same, so there's only onedoublerepresentation of them both.– Dawood ibn Kareem
Jan 8 '15 at 2:48