round(3) - f38

1round(3)                   Library Functions Manual                   round(3)
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NAME

6       round, roundf, roundl - round to nearest integer, away from zero
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LIBRARY

9       Math library (libm, -lm)
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SYNOPSIS

12       #include <math.h>
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14       double round(double x);
15       float roundf(float x);
16       long double roundl(long double x);
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18   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
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20       round(), roundf(), roundl():
21           _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
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DESCRIPTION

24       These functions round x to the nearest integer, but round halfway cases
25       away from zero (regardless  of  the  current  rounding  direction,  see
26       fenv(3)), instead of to the nearest even integer like rint(3).
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28       For example, round(0.5) is 1.0, and round(-0.5) is -1.0.
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RETURN VALUE

31       These functions return the rounded integer value.
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33       If x is integral, +0, -0, NaN, or infinite, x itself is returned.
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ERRORS

36       No  errors  occur.  POSIX.1-2001 documents a range error for overflows,
37       but see NOTES.
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ATTRIBUTES

40       For an  explanation  of  the  terms  used  in  this  section,  see  at‐
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43       ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
44       │Interface                                   │ Attribute     │ Value   │
45       ├────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
46       │round(), roundf(), roundl()                 │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
47       └────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
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STANDARDS

50       C11, POSIX.1-2008.
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HISTORY

53       glibc 2.1.  C99, POSIX.1-2001.
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NOTES

56       POSIX.1-2001  contains  text  about  overflow (which might set errno to
57       ERANGE, or raise an FE_OVERFLOW exception).  In  practice,  the  result
58       cannot overflow on any current machine, so this error-handling stuff is
59       just nonsense.  (More precisely, overflow can happen only when the max‐
60       imum value of the exponent is smaller than the number of mantissa bits.
61       For the IEEE-754 standard 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point numbers  the
62       maximum value of the exponent is 127 (respectively, 1023), and the num‐
63       ber of mantissa bits including the implicit bit  is  24  (respectively,
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66       If you want to store the rounded value in an integer type, you probably
67       want to use one of the functions described in lround(3) instead.
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