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    Rounding Calculator

    Round a number to the nearest tenth, hundredth, whole number, ten or hundred

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    How to Round to the Nearest Place

    Find the place and look at the digit to its right: 5–9 — add 1 to the place digit, 0–4 — leave it; then drop the digits to the right (in the whole part, replace them with zeros).

    Example: 26.553 to the nearest hundredth

    26.553

    5 hundredths place 3 The thousandths digit decides

    26.553
    26.55closer 26.555midpoint 26.56

    3 < 5 → keep 26.55

    Every digit of 52,437.8156 and its place
    PlaceDigitRounded to this place
    ten thousands550,000
    thousands252,000
    hundreds452,400
    tens352,440
    ones752,438
    tenths852,437.8
    hundredths152,437.82
    thousandths552,437.816
    ten-thousandths652,437.8156
    Frequent values
    RoundingAnswer
    35.78 to the nearest whole number36
    26.553 to the nearest hundredth26.55
    729,832 to the nearest thousand730,000
    18.375 to the nearest hundredth18.38
    136 to the nearest ten140
    48 to the nearest ten50
    845,001 to the nearest thousand845,000
    3.249 to the nearest tenth3.2
    5.193 to the nearest hundredth5.19
    52,437 to the nearest thousand52,000
    4,952 to the nearest hundred5,000
    783 to the nearest hundred800

    Common mistakes

    • Round once, from the original number: 2.449 to the nearest tenth is 2.4. Rounding in two steps, 2.449 → 2.45 → 2.5, is wrong — the 5 in 2.45 was itself made by rounding.
    • A halfway value rounds away from zero in school and in Excel ROUND: 2.5 → 3. Round half to even (banker's rounding, Python round()) picks the even neighbour instead: 2.5 → 2, 3.5 → 4.
    • Negative numbers round by their digits, and a halfway value goes away from zero: -2.5 → -3, not -2.
    • “To the nearest tenth” means one digit after the decimal point, not the tens: 31.4159 to the nearest tenth is 31.4, to the nearest ten — 30.

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    FAQ

    How do you round to the nearest tenth?

    Look at the hundredths digit, the second after the decimal point: 5–9 add 1 to the tenths digit, 0–4 leave it, then drop everything after the tenths. 3.249 → 3.2 (4 < 5); 0.96 → 1.0 (6 ≥ 5, and the 9 carries over).

    Does 5 round up?

    In school rounding and Excel ROUND, a 5 with only zeros after it is exactly halfway and goes away from zero: 18.375 → 18.38, 2.5 → 3, -2.5 → -3. Round half to even (banker's rounding) picks the even neighbour instead: 2.5 → 2.

    How is rounding to a place different from significant figures?

    Rounding to a place fixes where the last digit stands — the nearest hundredth always keeps two decimals, whatever the size of the number. Significant figures count digits from the first non-zero one: 0.004567 to the nearest hundredth is 0.00, but to 2 significant figures it is 0.0046.