round() for float in C++

Question

I need a simple floating point rounding function, thus:

double round(double);

round(0.1) = 0
round(-0.1) = 0
round(-0.9) = -1

I can find

Answer 1

It's available since C++11 in cmath (according to http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3337.pdf)

#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  std::cout << "round(0.5):\t" << round(0.5) << std::endl;
  std::cout << "round(-0.5):\t" << round(-0.5) << std::endl;
  std::cout << "round(1.4):\t" << round(1.4) << std::endl;
  std::cout << "round(-1.4):\t" << round(-1.4) << std::endl;
  std::cout << "round(1.6):\t" << round(1.6) << std::endl;
  std::cout << "round(-1.6):\t" << round(-1.6) << std::endl;
  return 0;
}

Output:

round(0.5):  1
round(-0.5): -1
round(1.4):  1
round(-1.4): -1
round(1.6):  2
round(-1.6): -2

Answer 2

Boost offers a simple set of rounding functions.

#include <boost/math/special_functions/round.hpp>

double a = boost::math::round(1.5); // Yields 2.0
int b = boost::math::iround(1.5); // Yields 2 as an integer

For more information, see the Boost documentation.

Edit: Since C++11, there are std::round, std::lround, and std::llround.

Answer 3

Beware of floor(x+0.5). Here is what can happen for odd numbers in range [2^52,2^53]:

-bash-3.2$ cat >test-round.c <<END

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

int main() {
    double x=5000000000000001.0;
    double y=round(x);
    double z=floor(x+0.5);
    printf("      x     =%f\n",x);
    printf("round(x)    =%f\n",y);
    printf("floor(x+0.5)=%f\n",z);
    return 0;
}
END

-bash-3.2$ gcc test-round.c
-bash-3.2$ ./a.out
      x     =5000000000000001.000000
round(x)    =5000000000000001.000000
floor(x+0.5)=5000000000000002.000000

This is http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7134. Use a solution like the one of @konik.

My own robust version would be something like:

double round(double x)
{
    double truncated,roundedFraction;
    double fraction = modf(x, &truncated);
    modf(2.0*fraction, &roundedFraction);
    return truncated + roundedFraction;
}

Another reason to avoid floor(x+0.5) is given here.

Answer 4

If you ultimately want to convert the double output of your round() function to an int, then the accepted solutions of this question will look something like:

int roundint(double r) {
  return (int)((r > 0.0) ? floor(r + 0.5) : ceil(r - 0.5));
}

This clocks in at around 8.88 ns on my machine when passed in uniformly random values.

The below is functionally equivalent, as far as I can tell, but clocks in at 2.48 ns on my machine, for a significant performance advantage:

int roundint (double r) {
  int tmp = static_cast<int> (r);
  tmp += (r-tmp>=.5) - (r-tmp<=-.5);
  return tmp;
}

Among the reasons for the better performance is the skipped branching.