How do you round a number to two decimal places in

Question

I want to do this using the Math.Round function

Answer 1

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 2

I know its an old question but please note for the following differences between Math round and String format round:

decimal d1 = (decimal)1.125;
Math.Round(d1, 2).Dump();   // returns 1.12
d1.ToString("#.##").Dump(); // returns "1.13"

decimal d2 = (decimal)1.1251;
Math.Round(d2, 2).Dump();   // returns 1.13
d2.ToString("#.##").Dump(); // returns "1.13"

Answer 3

// convert upto two decimal places

String.Format("{0:0.00}", 140.6767554);        // "140.67"
String.Format("{0:0.00}", 140.1);             // "140.10"
String.Format("{0:0.00}", 140);              // "140.00"

Double d = 140.6767554;
Double dc = Math.Round((Double)d, 2);       //  140.67

decimal d = 140.6767554M;
decimal dc = Math.Round(d, 2);             //  140.67

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// just two decimal places
String.Format("{0:0.##}", 123.4567);      // "123.46"
String.Format("{0:0.##}", 123.4);         // "123.4"
String.Format("{0:0.##}", 123.0);         // "123"

can also combine "0" with "#".

String.Format("{0:0.0#}", 123.4567)       // "123.46"
String.Format("{0:0.0#}", 123.4)          // "123.4"
String.Format("{0:0.0#}", 123.0)          // "123.0"

Answer 4

  public double RoundDown(double number, int decimalPlaces)
        {
            return Math.Floor(number * Math.Pow(10, decimalPlaces)) / Math.Pow(10, decimalPlaces);
        }

Answer 5

Here's some examples:

decimal a = 1.994444M;

Math.Round(a, 2); //returns 1.99

decimal b = 1.995555M;

Math.Round(b, 2); //returns 2.00

You might also want to look at bankers rounding / round-to-even with the following overload:

Math.Round(a, 2, MidpointRounding.ToEven);

There's more information on it here.

Answer 6

Try this:

twoDec = Math.Round(val, 2)