Rounding a double value to x number of decimal places in swift

Question

Can anyone tell me how to round a double value to x number of decimal places in Swift?

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Answer 1

You can use Swift's round function to accomplish this.

To round a Double with 3 digits precision, first multiply it by 1000, round it and divide the rounded result by 1000:

let x = 1.23556789
let y = Double(round(1000*x)/1000)
print(y)  // 1.236

Other than any kind of printf(...) or String(format: ...) solutions, the result of this operation is still of type Double.

EDIT:
Regarding the comments that it sometimes does not work, please read this:

What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic