NAME

round - round a number to the nearest integer

round, roundf, roundl - round to nearest integer, away from zero

LIBRARY

Math library (libm, -lm)

SYNOPSIS

Header File

#include <math.h>

Prototype

double round(double x);

#include <math.h>
double round(double x);
float roundf(float x);
long double roundl(long double x);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

round(), roundf(), roundl():

    _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L

DESCRIPTION

This function rounds x to the nearest integer.

These functions round x to the nearest integer, but round halfway cases away from zero (regardless of the current rounding direction, see fenv(3)), instead of to the nearest even integer like rint(3).

For example, round(0.5) is 1.0, and round(-0.5) is -1.0.

RETURN VALUE

This function returns, as a double, x rounded to the nearest integer. You may safely cast that value to a long (or an int if it fits).

These functions return the rounded integer value.

If x is integral, +0, -0, NaN, or infinite, x itself is returned.

EXAMPLE

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    printf("This is CS%i\n", (int) round(49.5));
}

ERRORS

No errors occur. POSIX.1-2001 documents a range error for overflows, but see NOTES.

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Interface	Attribute	Value
round(), roundf(), roundl()	Thread safety	MT-Safe

STANDARDS

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

glibc 2.1. C99, POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES

POSIX.1-2001 contains text about overflow (which might set errno to ERANGE, or raise an FE_OVERFLOW exception). In practice, the result cannot overflow on any current machine, so this error-handling stuff is just nonsense. (More precisely, overflow can happen only when the maximum value of the exponent is smaller than the number of mantissa bits. For the IEEE-754 standard 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point numbers the maximum value of the exponent is 127 (respectively, 1023), and the number of mantissa bits including the implicit bit is 24 (respectively, 53).)

If you want to store the rounded value in an integer type, you probably want to use one of the functions described in lround(3) instead.