Rounding a double to 5 decimal places in Java ME

Question

How do I round a double to 5 decimal places, without using DecimalFormat?

Answer 1

public static double roundNumber(double num, int dec) {
        return Math.round(num*Math.pow(10,dec))/Math.pow(10,dec);
}

Answer 2

I stumbled upon here looking for a way to limit my double number to two decimal places, so not truncating nor rounding it. Math.Truncate gives you the integral part of the double number and discards everything after the decimal point, so 10.123456 becomes 10 after truncation. Math.Round rounds the number to the nearest integral value so 10.65 becomes 11 while 10.45 becomes 10. So both of these functions did not meet my needs (I wish that .Net had overloaded both of these to allow truncating or rounding up to a certain number of decimal places). The easiest way to do what I needed is:

//First create a random number 
Random rand = new Random();

//Then make it a double by getting the NextDouble (this gives you a value 
//between 0 and 1 so I add 10 to make it a number between 10 and 11
double chn = 10 + rand.NextDouble();

//Now convert this number to string fixed to two decimal places by using the
//Format "F2" in ToString
string strChannel = chn.ToString("F2");

//See the string in Output window
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Channel Added: " + strChannel);

//Now convert the string back to double so you have the double (chn) 
//restricted to two decimal places
chn = double.Parse(strChannel);

Answer 3

DecimalFormat roundFormatter = new DecimalFormat("########0.00000");

public Double round(Double d)
    {
        return Double.parseDouble(roundFormatter.format(d));
    }

Answer 4

If you are okay with external libraries, you can have a look at microfloat, specifically MicroDouble.toString(double d, int length).

Answer 5

Try the following

double value = Double.valueOf(String.format(Locale.US, "%1$.5f", 5.565858845));

System.out.println(value); // prints 5.56586

value = Double.valueOf(String.format(Locale.US, "%1$.5f", 5.56585258));

System.out.println(value); // prints 5.56585

Or if you want minimal amount of code

Use import static

import static java.lang.Double.valueOf;
import static java.util.Locale.US;
import static java.lang.String.format;

And

double value = valueOf(format(US, "%1$.5f", 5.56585258));

regards,

Answer 6

Whatever you do, if you end up with a double value it's unlikely to be exactly 5 decimal places. That just isn't the way binary floating point arithmetic works. The best you'll do is "the double value closest to the original value rounded to 5 decimal places". If you were to print out the exact value of that double, it would still probably have more than 5 decimal places.

If you really want exact decimal values, you should use BigDecimal.