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# DavidVaini/round.go Created Apr 9, 2014

Arggh Golang does not include a round function in the standard math package. So I wrote a quick one.
 package main import ( "log" "math" ) func Round(val float64, roundOn float64, places int ) (newVal float64) { var round float64 pow := math.Pow(10, float64(places)) digit := pow * val _, div := math.Modf(digit) if div >= roundOn { round = math.Ceil(digit) } else { round = math.Floor(digit) } newVal = round / pow return } func main() { log.Println(Round(123.555555, .5, 3)) log.Println(Round(123.558, .5, 2)) }

### xh3b4sd commented Aug 7, 2014

 And here is the link for the playground http://play.golang.org/p/yjfShH_uEy

### ianchildress commented Oct 4, 2014

 YOU ARE AWESOME. Thank you thank you thank you thank you. Thank you.

### pelegm commented Oct 23, 2014

 I think this does not work properly for negative values.

### pelegm commented Oct 23, 2014

 I think that my fork solves that issue.

### korya commented Feb 11, 2015

 The solution is way overcomplicated. IMHO for simple round function it's better to use the straightforward solution: func Round(f float64) float64 { return math.Floor(f + .5) } Want to round to a specific precision? func RoundPlus(f float64, places int) (float64) { shift := math.Pow(10, float64(places)) return Round(f * shift) / shift; } Want to specify the roundOn value? I'll leave it as an exercise for you. Here is a goplay

### brydavis commented May 24, 2015

 I agree with solution by @korya. Thanks to everyone, though.

### AlasdairF commented May 26, 2015

 Without the math package: func round(v float64, decimals int) float64 { var pow float64 = 1 for i:=0; i

### tgpfeiffer commented Jul 17, 2015

 I think the solution from @korya doesn't work for negative numbers. This one should do: func(a float64) float64 { if a < 0 { return math.Ceil(a - 0.5) } return math.Floor(a + 0.5) } 

### siddontang commented Sep 3, 2015

 Thanks @DavidVaini but the result is not the same as prevailing GUN c rint, e.g, rint(1.5) -> 2 rint(2.5) -> 2  but we will get 2 and 3 with yours with roundOn = 0.5 and places = 0. you can see the reference here http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Rounding.html I just write a simple one here: https://gist.github.com/siddontang/1806573b9a8574989ccb

### dim13 commented Feb 8, 2017

 Note: this implementation fails for Round(-3.333, 0.5, 2) -- expected -3.33, got -3.34 Simple \sgn(y) \left\lfloor \left| y \right| + 0.5 \right\rfloor would be enough.

### a-h commented Mar 17, 2017

 After reading through many different and untested solutions, I decided to put together a package with implementations of ToEven (used in .Net, Python 3) rounding and AwayFromZero (used in Python 2) rounding. It includes unit tests that demonstrate the expected behaviour of the implementation, and a comparison test with Python and a rough benchmark. Happy to take a pull request for ToPositiveInfinity (used by Java) and ToNegativeInfinity rounding if anyone cares about them.
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### DavidVaini commented Jul 28, 2017

 hi guys, I never saw these comments until just now. The implementation was old and was something quick and dirty. Thus the code is in a gist snippet and not a repo. This worked for my case which was positive integers, but note it will fail with negative numbers. It looks like people have other implementations though they don't account for what decimal place you want to round on or what value you want to round on (.5 vs .9 or other use cases.

### fedir commented Feb 26, 2018

 @korya +1