ROUND (number)
Description of the illustration round_number.gif
ROUND
returns n
rounded to integer
places to the right of the decimal point. If you omit integer
, then n
is rounded to 0 places. The argument integer
can be negative to round off digits left of the decimal point.n
can be any numeric datatype or any nonnumeric datatype that can be implicitly converted to a numeric datatype. The argument integer
must be an integer. If you omit integer
, then the function returns the same datatype as the numeric datatype of the argument. If you include integer
, then the function returnsNUMBER
.
For
NUMBER
values, the value n
is rounded away from 0 (for example, to x
+1 when x
.5 is positive and to x
-1 when x
.5 is negative). For BINARY_FLOAT
andBINARY_DOUBLE
values, the function rounds to the nearest even value. Please refer to the examples that follow.
See Also:
Table 2-10, "Implicit Type Conversion Matrix" for more information on implicit conversion
The following example rounds a number to one decimal point:
SELECT ROUND(15.193,1) "Round" FROM DUAL; Round ---------- 15.2
The following example rounds a number one digit to the left of the decimal point:
SELECT ROUND(15.193,-1) "Round" FROM DUAL; Round ---------- 20
The following examples illustrate the difference between rounding
NUMBER
and floating-point number values. NUMBER
values are rounded up (for positive values), whereas floating-point numbers are rounded toward the nearest even value:SELECT ROUND(1.5), ROUND(2.5) FROM DUAL; ROUND(1.5) ROUND(2.5) ---------- ---------- 2 3 SELECT ROUND(1.5f), ROUND(2.5f) FROM DUAL; ROUND(1.5F) ROUND(2.5F) ----------- ----------- 2.0E+000 2.0E+000