How can I round down a number in Javascript?

Solution 1:

Using Math.floor() is one way of doing this.

More information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Math/floor

Solution 2:

Round towards negative infinity - Math.floor()

+3.5 => +3.0
-3.5 => -4.0

Round towards zero can be done using Math.trunc(). Older browsers do not support this function. If you need to support these, you can use Math.ceil() for negative numbers and Math.floor() for positive numbers.

+3.5 => +3.0 using Math.floor()
-3.5 => -3.0 using Math.ceil()

Solution 3:

Math.floor() will work, but it's very slow compared to using a bitwise OR operation:

var rounded = 34.923 | 0;
alert( rounded );
//alerts "34"

EDIT Math.floor() is not slower than using the | operator. Thanks to Jason S for checking my work.

Here's the code I used to test:

var a = [];
var time = new Date().getTime();
for( i = 0; i < 100000; i++ ) {
    //a.push( Math.random() * 100000  | 0 );
    a.push( Math.floor( Math.random() * 100000 ) );
}
var elapsed = new Date().getTime() - time;
alert( "elapsed time: " + elapsed );

Solution 4:

You can try to use this function if you need to round down to a specific number of decimal places

function roundDown(number, decimals) {
    decimals = decimals || 0;
    return ( Math.floor( number * Math.pow(10, decimals) ) / Math.pow(10, decimals) );
}

examples

alert(roundDown(999.999999)); // 999
alert(roundDown(999.999999, 3)); // 999.999
alert(roundDown(999.999999, -1)); // 990

Solution 5:

Rounding a number towards 0 (aka "truncating its fractional part") can be done by subtracting its signed fractional part number % 1:

rounded = number - number % 1;

Like Math.floor (rounds towards -Infinity) this method is perfectly accurate.

There are differences in the handling of -0, +Infinity and -Infinity though:

Math.floor(-0) => -0
-0 - -0 % 1    => +0

Math.floor(Infinity)    => Infinity
Infinity - Infinity % 1 => NaN

Math.floor(-Infinity)     => -Infinity
-Infinity - -Infinity % 1 => NaN