In this post, we will show you how to round numbers in Google Sheets. Spreadsheet data often consists of decimal numbers that lie between whole numbers. A decimal number consists of a decimal point ...

Editor's Note: I just thought I should mention that there's an ongoing, ever-evolving, and dramatically different presentation of this topic entitled Rounding 101 on my personal website. We'll start ...

For statistical and mathematical purposes, OpenOffice.org's Calc spreadsheet includes a variety of ways to round off numbers. If you're a programmer, you may also be familiar with some of these ...

Way back in the mists of time (in the early days of 2006), I penned a “How To” column that presented An introduction to different rounding algorithms. In order to provide some real-world examples, ...

I remember when I was a kid at school and the teacher first taught us how to round numbers. The technique he taught us is known as arithmetic rounding, also called round-half-up. In this case, values ...

When you do not need to speak or write about exact quantities or measures, learning to round decimals can be useful. Rounding decimals is useful when making an estimation. The process is similar to ...

Imagine needing to estimate the total cost of the items in your grocery basket to decide whether to put something back. So you round to the nearest dollar for each potential purchase, using the “round ...