'\" t .\" Copyright 2001 Andries Brouwer . .\" and Copyright 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk .\" .\" .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft .\" .TH round 3 2022-12-15 "Linux man-pages 6.03" .SH NAME round, roundf, roundl \- round to nearest integer, away from zero .SH LIBRARY Math library .RI ( libm ", " \-lm ) .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .PP .BI "double round(double " x ); .BI "float roundf(float " x ); .BI "long double roundl(long double " x ); .fi .PP .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE .PP .BR round (), .BR roundf (), .BR roundl (): .nf _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L .fi .SH DESCRIPTION These functions round .I x to the nearest integer, but round halfway cases away from zero (regardless of the current rounding direction, see .BR fenv (3)), instead of to the nearest even integer like .BR rint (3). .PP For example, .I round(0.5) is 1.0, and .I round(\-0.5) is \-1.0. .SH RETURN VALUE These functions return the rounded integer value. .PP If .I x is integral, +0, \-0, NaN, or infinite, .I x itself is returned. .SH ERRORS No errors occur. POSIX.1-2001 documents a range error for overflows, but see NOTES. .SH VERSIONS These functions were added in glibc 2.1. .SH ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see .BR attributes (7). .ad l .nh .TS allbox; lbx lb lb l l l. Interface Attribute Value T{ .BR round (), .BR roundf (), .BR roundl () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE .hy .ad .sp 1 .SH STANDARDS C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008. .SH NOTES POSIX.1-2001 contains text about overflow (which might set .I errno to .BR ERANGE , or raise an .B FE_OVERFLOW exception). In practice, the result cannot overflow on any current machine, so this error-handling stuff is just nonsense. .\" The POSIX.1-2001 APPLICATION USAGE SECTION discusses this point. (More precisely, overflow can happen only when the maximum value of the exponent is smaller than the number of mantissa bits. For the IEEE-754 standard 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point numbers the maximum value of the exponent is 127 (respectively, 1023), and the number of mantissa bits including the implicit bit is 24 (respectively, 53).) .PP If you want to store the rounded value in an integer type, you probably want to use one of the functions described in .BR lround (3) instead. .SH SEE ALSO .BR ceil (3), .BR floor (3), .BR lround (3), .BR nearbyint (3), .BR rint (3), .BR trunc (3)