round

The round function returns the rounded source to the specified precision.

Syntax

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    round( Source [, Precision] )

Arguments

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• Source: The source scalar the round is calculated on.
• Precision: Number of digits the source will be rounded to. (default value is 0)

Results

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The rounded source to the specified precision.

Round is different than bin and floor in that the first rounds a number to a specific number of digits while the last rounds value to an integer multiple of a given bin size (round(2.15, 1) returns 2.2 while bin(2.15, 1) returns 2).

Examples

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This example returns 2.2:

print round( 2.15, 1 )

This example returns 2. It’s equivalent to print round( 2.15, 0 ):

print round( 2.15 )

This example returns -100:

print round( -50.55, -2 )

This example returns 20:

print round( 21.5, -1 )