round(3)

round3

Round to nearest integral value

Usage

#include <math.h>

double

round(double x);

float

roundf(float x);

long double

roundl(long double x);

Library

Math Library (libm, -lm)

Overview

The round(), roundf(), and roundl() functions return the nearest integral value to x; if x lies halfway between two integral values, then these functions return the integral value with the larger absolute value (i.e., they round away from zero).

Releases

52 releases since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE; the text changed 34 times.

  1. 5.3
  2. 5.4–5.5
  3. 6.0–6.3
  4. 6.4
  5. 7.0
  6. 7.1
  7. 7.2
  8. 7.3
  9. 7.4
  10. 8.0
  11. 8.1
  12. 8.2
  13. 8.3
  14. 8.4
  15. 9.0
  16. 9.1
  17. 9.2
  18. 9.3
  19. 10.0
  20. 10.1
  21. 10.2
  22. 10.3
  23. 10.4
  24. 11.0
  25. 11.1
  26. 11.2
  27. 11.3
  28. 11.4
  29. 12.0
  30. 12.1
  31. 12.2
  32. 12.3
  33. 12.4
  34. 13.0–13.2
  35. 13.3–16.0

Standards

These functions conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (“ISO C99”).

History

The round() and roundf() functions appeared in FreeBSD 5.3. The roundl() function appeared in FreeBSD 6.0.

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