ROUND2

Round to a specified number of decimals.

Description

ROUND2 Round to a specified number of decimals.

  ROUND2(A) returns the same as ROUND(A).
  ROUND2(A, 'even') returns the same as ROUND(A). Elements with
  fractional part equal to 0.5 are rounded to even integers.
  ROUND2(A, N) rounds the elements of A to decimals specified in N.
  ROUND2(A, N,'even') rounds the elements of A to decimals specified
  in N. Elements with 5 as the (N+1)-th digit after decimal are rounded
  to even numbers.

  See also: ROUND, FIX, FLOOR, CEIL, FIX2.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; Round to a Specified Number of Significant Digits, Round to Specified Digits Place
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7 (R14)

[Johnny C.]

A good idea, just what I needed. The function probably works as such in R14 which is the intended environment.

However, I'm using R12.1 and I had to replace "tf = @(x) abs(x - fix(x)) == .5" by "tf = inline('abs(x - fix(x)) == .5')", "||" by "|" and "&&" by "&" and comment away the check for non-scalar input (R12.1 doesn't have the function "isscalar") to make it work.

If it worked right away in a previous Matlab release, I'd rate it at 4.

[Oliver Lockwood]

Surely this can be done far more simply by the following method, e.g. if you want to round variable mynum to 4 d.p.:

mynum = (round(mynum*1e4)) / 1e4 ;

Please let me know your thoughts.

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Oliver Lockwood,
Surely, what you said forms the core of this file; but if you look the help documentation, ROUND2 does more than that. Like when you need rounding to even in 0.5 case.

[Serena F.]

Same comments as Johnny C. except for the "||" and "&&" substitution.

[Kurt Rosenberger]

 

[Senthilkumaran K]

Hi... Do u have any idea about roundn function..
I used it in R14 version but couldn't find it in 2006b. Anyway your code helped to bridge that gap.

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Senthilkumaran, I could not find roundn in MATLAB R2007b. May be you have mistyped it? It will be very interseting to know if there is a function like that.

[Angel Atanasov]

Thank you. Great addition for me. :)

[Amita Deb]

This seems very useful. I am surprised that MATLAB doesn't have a built-in function to to rounding-off up to a desired number of decimal places.

[John Greeb]

Regarding roundn- I found it in the Mapping toolbox from MATLAB.

[Kian Chai]

Thanks a lot

[Srikant Vallabhajosula]

works for me!!! great timely help!!!

[Senthilkumaran K]

Ohh.. Now I could understand, why I did not get roundn function. I didn't install Mapping tool box in R2007b. ThxJohn Greeb for the info.

[Daniel]

Thanks a lot! Unbelievable Matlab does not have one in their main functions!

[Soumyadipta Sarkar]

Thank you Mukhtar. You saved my day.

[Nikolaos]

thanks