[jaredolympia]

Currently, I am making a program that computes standard deviation. However, the teacher expects all the numbers to be rounded to the nearest hundredth. Anyway, I was wondering if anybody knew of any C functions that accept an argument of type double and return the argument rounded to the nearest hundredth.

here are some examples:

145.453

should round to 145.45

145.459

should round to 145.46


I need specific functions or an example of how to round a number to the nearest hundredth in C.

[Amadeus]

Is this along the lines of what you need? I'm not aware of any strictly native functions that will do it, a little bit of manipulation may be required.

[jaredolympia]

I finally figure it out, although it's probably not the most elegant way to do it.

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

double roundDouble(double number, int num_digits);

int main(void)
{ 
    double number = 34345.54556, rounded;
    
    rounded = roundDouble(number, 2);
    
    printf("Number = %f\nRounded = %f\n", number, rounded);
    
    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

double roundDouble(double number, int num_digits)
{
       double x, y, roundedNum = 0;
       int ctr;

       if(num_digits > 0)
       {
            x = 0.1;
            
            for(ctr = 1; ctr < num_digits; ctr++)
            {
                    x *= 0.1;
            }
            
            y = fmod(number, x);
            
            if(y < x * 5 * 0.1)
            {
                 roundedNum = number - y;
            }
            else
            {
                roundedNum = number - y + x;
            }          
       }
       else
       {
           x = 1;
           
           for(ctr = 1; ctr <= num_digits*-1; ctr++)
           {
                   x *= 10;
           }
           
           y = fmod(number, x);
           
           if(y < x * 5 *0.1)
           {
                roundedNum = number - y;
           }
           else
           {
               roundedNum = number - y + x;
           }
       }
       
       return(roundedNum);
}

[Nova Dragoon]

couldnt you just do

printf("%.2f", number);


?


or did I miss something in the earlier threads?

[jaredolympia]

That doesn't actually round the number. It just shows two digits of precision.

[Nova Dragoon]

oh you want to store it back into a var.

<dirty code>

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
                                                                                
int main(){
                                                                                
double i=5678.45677;
char *tmp;
                                                                               
sprintf(tmp,"%.2f",i);
i=atof(tmp);

                                                                                
return 0;
}