How do you round a number to two decimal places in C#?

Question

I want to do this using the Math.Round function

Answer 1

If you want to round a number, you can obtain different results depending on: how you use the Math.Round() function (if for a round-up or round-down), you're working with doubles and/or floats numbers, and you apply the midpoint rounding. Especially, when using with operations inside of it or the variable to round comes from an operation. Let's say, you want to multiply these two numbers: 0.75 * 0.95 = 0.7125. Right? Not in C#

Let's see what happens if you want to round to the 3rd decimal:

double result = 0.75d * 0.95d; // result = 0.71249999999999991
double result = 0.75f * 0.95f; // result = 0.71249997615814209

result = Math.Round(result, 3, MidpointRounding.ToEven); // result = 0.712. Ok
result = Math.Round(result, 3, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero); // result = 0.712. Should be 0.713

As you see, the first Round() is correct if you want to round down the midpoint. But the second Round() it's wrong if you want to round up.

This applies to negative numbers:

double result = -0.75 * 0.95;  //result = -0.71249999999999991
result = Math.Round(result, 3, MidpointRounding.ToEven); // result = -0.712. Ok
result = Math.Round(result, 3, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero); // result = -0.712. Should be -0.713

So, IMHO, you should create your own wrap function for Math.Round() that fit your requirements. I created a function in which, the parameter 'roundUp=true' means to round to next greater number. That is: 0.7125 rounds to 0.713 and -0.7125 rounds to -0.712 (because -0.712 > -0.713). This is the function I created and works for any number of decimals:

double Redondea(double value, int precision, bool roundUp = true)
{
    if ((decimal)value == 0.0m)
        return 0.0;

    double corrector = 1 / Math.Pow(10, precision + 2);

    if ((decimal)value < 0.0m)
    {
        if (roundUp)
            return Math.Round(value, precision, MidpointRounding.ToEven);
        else
            return Math.Round(value - corrector, precision, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero);
    }
    else
    {
        if (roundUp)
            return Math.Round(value + corrector, precision, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero);
        else
            return Math.Round(value, precision, MidpointRounding.ToEven);
    }
}

The variable 'corrector' is for fixing the inaccuracy of operating with floating or double numbers.

Answer 2

You should be able to specify the number of digits you want to round to using Math.Round(YourNumber, 2)

You can read more here.

Answer 3

If you'd like a string

> (1.7289).ToString("#.##")
"1.73"

Or a decimal

> Math.Round((Decimal)x, 2)
1.73m

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But remember! Rounding is not distributive, ie. round(x*y) != round(x) * round(y). So don't do any rounding until the very end of a calculation, else you'll lose accuracy.

Answer 4

Math.Floor(123456.646 * 100) / 100 Would return 123456.64

Answer 5

Try this:

twoDec = Math.Round(val, 2)

Answer 6

Wikipedia has a nice page on rounding in general.

All .NET (managed) languages can use any of the common language run time's (the CLR) rounding mechanisms. For example, the Math.Round() (as mentioned above) method allows the developer to specify the type of rounding (Round-to-even or Away-from-zero). The Convert.ToInt32() method and its variations use round-to-even. The Ceiling() and Floor() methods are related.

You can round with custom numeric formatting as well.

Note that Decimal.Round() uses a different method than Math.Round();

Here is a useful post on the banker's rounding algorithm. See one of Raymond's humorous posts here about rounding...