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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s see what Jerry and Albert are buying for their holiday. Looking good! We should work out how much money they’ll need. Let’s make a rough estimate by rounding the costs to the nearest pound.

The mysteries of rounding are exposed; strict, unbiased rounding can be applied. Chris BurgessRounding a result to the required number of decimal places is easy, isn’t it? After all, we were all ...