Round a double to 2 decimal places

Question

If the value is 200.3456, it should be formatted to 200.34. If it is 200, then it should be 200.00.

Answer 1

Here's an utility that rounds (instead of truncating) a double to specified number of decimal places.

For example:

round(200.3456, 2); // returns 200.35

Original version; watch out with this

public static double round(double value, int places) {
    if (places < 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException();

    long factor = (long) Math.pow(10, places);
    value = value * factor;
    long tmp = Math.round(value);
    return (double) tmp / factor;
}

This breaks down badly in corner cases with either a very high number of decimal places (e.g. round(1000.0d, 17)) or large integer part (e.g. round(90080070060.1d, 9)). Thanks to Sloin for pointing this out.

I've been using the above to round "not-too-big" doubles to 2 or 3 decimal places happily for years (for example to clean up time in seconds for logging purposes: 27.987654321987 -> 27.99). But I guess it's best to avoid it, since more reliable ways are readily available, with cleaner code too.

So, use this instead

(Adapted from this answer by Louis Wasserman and this one by Sean Owen.)

public static double round(double value, int places) {
    if (places < 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException();

    BigDecimal bd = BigDecimal.valueOf(value);
    bd = bd.setScale(places, RoundingMode.HALF_UP);
    return bd.doubleValue();
}

Note that HALF_UP is the rounding mode "commonly taught at school". Peruse the RoundingMode documentation, if you suspect you need something else such as Bankers’ Rounding.

Of course, if you prefer, you can inline the above into a one-liner:
new BigDecimal(value).setScale(places, RoundingMode.HALF_UP).doubleValue()

And in every case

Always remember that floating point representations using float and double are inexact. For example, consider these expressions:

999199.1231231235 == 999199.1231231236 // true
1.03 - 0.41 // 0.6200000000000001

For exactness, you want to use BigDecimal. And while at it, use the constructor that takes a String, never the one taking double. For instance, try executing this:

System.out.println(new BigDecimal(1.03).subtract(new BigDecimal(0.41)));
System.out.println(new BigDecimal("1.03").subtract(new BigDecimal("0.41")));

Some excellent further reading on the topic:

• Item 48: "Avoid float and double if exact answers are required" in Effective Java (2nd ed) by Joshua Bloch
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

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If you wanted String formatting instead of (or in addition to) strictly rounding numbers, see the other answers.

Specifically, note that round(200, 0) returns 200.0. If you want to output "200.00", you should first round and then format the result for output (which is perfectly explained in Jesper's answer).

Answer 2

If you just want to print a double with two digits after the decimal point, use something like this:

double value = 200.3456;
System.out.printf("Value: %.2f", value);

If you want to have the result in a String instead of being printed to the console, use String.format() with the same arguments:

String result = String.format("%.2f", value);

Or use class DecimalFormat:

DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("####0.00");
System.out.println("Value: " + df.format(value));

Answer 3

I think this is easier:

double time = 200.3456;
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.##");      
time = Double.valueOf(df.format(time));

System.out.println(time); // 200.35

Note that this will actually do the rounding for you, not just formatting.

Answer 4

The easiest way, would be to do a trick like this;

double val = ....;
val = val*100;
val = Math.round(val);
val = val /100;

if val starts at 200.3456 then it goes to 20034.56 then it gets rounded to 20035 then we divide it to get 200.34.

if you wanted to always round down we could always truncate by casting to an int:

double val = ....;
val = val*100;
val = (double)((int) val);
val = val /100;

This technique will work for most cases because for very large doubles (positive or negative) it may overflow. but if you know that your values will be in an appropriate range then this should work for you.

Answer 5

Please use Apache commons math:

Precision.round(10.4567, 2)

Answer 6

function Double round2(Double val) {
    return new BigDecimal(val.toString()).setScale(2,RoundingMode.HALF_UP).doubleValue();
}

Note the toString()!!!!

This is because BigDecimal converts the exact binary form of the double!!!

These are the various suggested methods and their fail cases.

// Always Good!
new BigDecimal(val.toString()).setScale(2,RoundingMode.HALF_UP).doubleValue() 

Double val = 260.775d; //EXPECTED 260.78
260.77 - WRONG - new BigDecimal(val).setScale(2,RoundingMode.HALF_UP).doubleValue()

Double val = 260.775d; //EXPECTED 260.78
260.77 - TRY AGAIN - Math.round(val * 100.d) / 100.0d  

Double val = 256.025d; //EXPECTED 256.03d
256.02 - OOPS - new DecimalFormat("0.00").format(val) 
// By default use half even, works if you change mode to half_up 

Double val = 256.025d; //EXPECTED 256.03d
256.02 - FAIL - (int)(val * 100 + 0.5) / 100.0;

Answer 7

double value= 200.3456;
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("0.00");      
System.out.println(df.format(value));

Answer 8

If you really want the same double, but rounded in the way you want you can use BigDecimal, for example

new BigDecimal(myValue).setScale(2, RoundingMode.HALF_UP).doubleValue();

Answer 9

double d = 28786.079999999998;
String str = String.format("%1.2f", d);
d = Double.valueOf(str);

Answer 10

For two rounding digits. Very simple and you are basically updating the variable instead of just display purposes which DecimalFormat does.

x = Math.floor(x * 100) / 100;

Answer 11

Rounding a double is usually not what one wants. Instead, use String.format() to represent it in the desired format.

Answer 12

In your question, it seems that you want to avoid rounding the numbers as well? I think .format() will round the numbers using half-up, afaik?
so if you want to round, 200.3456 should be 200.35 for a precision of 2. but in your case, if you just want the first 2 and then discard the rest?

You could multiply it by 100 and then cast to an int (or taking the floor of the number), before dividing by 100 again.

200.3456 * 100 = 20034.56;  
(int) 20034.56 = 20034;  
20034/100.0 = 200.34;

You might have issues with really really big numbers close to the boundary though. In which case converting to a string and substring'ing it would work just as easily.

Answer 13

value = (int)(value * 100 + 0.5) / 100.0;