Round Double to 1 decimal place kotlin: from 0.044999 to 0.1

I have a Double variable that is 0.0449999 and I would like to round it to 1 decimal place 0.1 .

I am using Kotlin but the Java solution is also helpful.

val number:Double = 0.0449999

I tried getting 1 decimal place with these two solutions:

1. val solution = Math.round(number * 10.0) / 10.0
2. val solution = String.format("%.1f", number)

The problem is that I get 0.0 in both cases because it rounds the number from 0.04 to 0.0. It doesn't take all decimals and round it.

I would like to obtain 0.1: 0.045 -> 0.05 -> 0.1

Solution 1:

Finally I did what Andy Turner suggested, rounded to 3 decimals, then to 2 and then to 1:

Answer 1:

val number:Double = 0.0449999
val number3digits:Double = String.format("%.3f", number).toDouble()
val number2digits:Double = String.format("%.2f", number3digits).toDouble()
val solution:Double = String.format("%.1f", number2digits).toDouble()

Answer 2:

val number:Double = 0.0449999
val number3digits:Double = Math.round(number * 1000.0) / 1000.0
val number2digits:Double = Math.round(number3digits * 100.0) / 100.0
val solution:Double = Math.round(number2digits * 10.0) / 10.0

Result:

0.045 → 0.05 → 0.1

Note: I know it is not how it should work but sometimes you need to round up taking into account all decimals for some special cases so maybe someone finds this useful.

Solution 2:

The BigDecimal rounding features several RoundingModes, including those rounding up (away from zero) or towards positive infinity. If that's what you need, you can perform rounding by calling setScale as follows:

val number = 0.0449999
val rounded = number.toBigDecimal().setScale(1, RoundingMode.UP).toDouble()
println(rounded) // 0.1

Note, however, that it works in a way that will also round anything between 0.0 and 0.1 to 0.1 (e.g. 0.00001 → 0.1).

^{The .toBigDecimal() extension is available since Kotlin 1.2.}

Solution 3:

I know some of the above solutions work perfectly but I want to add another solution that uses ceil and floor concept, which I think is optimized for all the cases.

If you want the highest value of the 2 digits after decimal use below code.

import java.math.BigDecimal 
import java.math.RoundingMode
import java.text.DecimalFormat

here, 1.45678 = 1.46

fun roundOffDecimal(number: Double): Double? {
    val df = DecimalFormat("#.##")
    df.roundingMode = RoundingMode.CEILING
    return df.format(number).toDouble()
}

If you want the lowest value of the 2 digits after decimal use below code.

here, 1.45678 = 1.45

fun roundOffDecimal(number: Double): Double? {
    val df = DecimalFormat("#.##")
    df.roundingMode = RoundingMode.FLOOR
    return df.format(number).toDouble()
}

Here a list of all available flags: CEILING, DOWN, FLOOR, HALF_DOWN, HALF_EVEN, HALF_UP, UNNECESSARY, UP

The detailed information is given in docs