Java Rounding Floating-Point Numbers

Java Rounding Floating-Point Numbers

Problem

You need to round floating-point numbers to integers or to a particular precision.

Solution

If you simply cast a floating value to an integer value, Java truncates the value. A
value like 3.999999 cast to an int or long becomes 3, not 4. To round floating-point
numbers properly, use Math.round( ) . It has two forms: if you give it a double , you get
a long result; if you give it a float , you get an int .

What if you don’t like the rounding rules used by round ? If for some bizarre reason
you wanted to round numbers greater than 0.54 instead of the normal 0.5, you could
write your own version of round( ) :

/*
* Round floating values to integers.
* @Return the closest int to the argument.
* @param d A non-negative values to be rounded.
*/
static int round(double d) {
if (d < 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Value must be non-negative");
}
int di = (int)Math.floor(d);
// integral value below (or ==) d
if ((d - di) > THRESHOLD) {
return di + 1;
} else {
return di;
}
}

If you need to display a number with less precision than it normally gets, you proba- bly want to use a DecimalFormat object or a Formatter object.