How to round a number to n decimal places in Java

Use setRoundingMode, set the RoundingMode explicitly to handle your issue with the half-even round, then use the format pattern for your required output.

Example:

DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.####");
df.setRoundingMode(RoundingMode.CEILING);
for (Number n : Arrays.asList(12, 123.12345, 0.23, 0.1, 2341234.212431324)) {
    Double d = n.doubleValue();
    System.out.println(df.format(d));
}

gives the output:

12
123.1235
0.23
0.1
2341234.2125

EDIT: The original answer does not address the accuracy of the double values. That is fine if you don't care much whether it rounds up or down. But if you want accurate rounding, then you need to take the expected accuracy of the values into account. Floating point values have a binary representation internally. That means that a value like 2.7735 does not actually have that exact value internally. It can be slightly larger or slightly smaller. If the internal value is slightly smaller, then it will not round up to 2.7740. To remedy that situation, you need to be aware of the accuracy of the values that you are working with, and add or subtract that value before rounding. For example, when you know that your values are accurate up to 6 digits, then to round half-way values up, add that accuracy to the value:

Double d = n.doubleValue() + 1e-6;

To round down, subtract the accuracy.

Assuming value is a double, you can do:

(double)Math.round(value * 100000d) / 100000d

That's for 5 digits precision. The number of zeros indicate the number of decimals.

new BigDecimal(String.valueOf(double)).setScale(yourScale, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP);

will get you a BigDecimal. To get the string out of it, just call that BigDecimal's toString method, or the toPlainString method for Java 5+ for a plain format string.

Sample program:

package trials;
import java.math.BigDecimal;

public class Trials {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int yourScale = 10;
        System.out.println(BigDecimal.valueOf(0.42344534534553453453-0.42324534524553453453).setScale(yourScale, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP));
    }

You can also use the

DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.00000");
df.format(0.912385);

to make sure you have the trailing 0's.

Suppose you have

double d = 9232.129394d;

you can use BigDecimal

BigDecimal bd = new BigDecimal(d).setScale(2, RoundingMode.HALF_EVEN);
d = bd.doubleValue();

or without BigDecimal

d = Math.round(d*100)/100.0d;

with both solutions d == 9232.13

double myNum = .912385;
int precision = 10000; //keep 4 digits
myNum= Math.floor(myNum * precision +.5)/precision;

So after reading most of the answers, I realized most of them won't be precise, in fact using BigDecimal seems like the best choice, but if you don't understand how the RoundingMode works, you will inevitable lose precision. I figured this out when working with big numbers in a project and thought it could help others having trouble rounding numbers. For example.

BigDecimal bd = new BigDecimal("1363.2749");
bd = bd.setScale(2, RoundingMode.HALF_UP);
System.out.println(bd.doubleValue());

You would expect to get 1363.28 as an output, but you will end up with 1363.27, which is not expected, if you don't know what the RoundingMode is doing. So looking into the Oracle Docs, you will find the following description for RoundingMode.HALF_UP.

Rounding mode to round towards "nearest neighbor" unless both neighbors are equidistant, in which case round up.

So knowing this, we realized that we won't be getting an exact rounding, unless we want to round towards nearest neighbor. So, to accomplish an adequate round, we would need to loop from the n-1 decimal towards the desired decimals digits. For example.

private double round(double value, int places) throws IllegalArgumentException {

    if (places < 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException();

    // Cast the number to a String and then separate the decimals.
    String stringValue = Double.toString(value);
    String decimals = stringValue.split("\\.")[1];

    // Round all the way to the desired number.
    BigDecimal bd = new BigDecimal(stringValue);
    for (int i = decimals.length()-1; i >= places; i--) {
        bd = bd.setScale(i, RoundingMode.HALF_UP);
    }

    return bd.doubleValue();
}

This will end up giving us the expected output, which would be 1363.28.

If you're using a technology that has a minimal JDK. Here's a way without any Java libs:

double scale = 100000;    
double myVal = 0.912385;
double rounded = (int)((myVal * scale) + 0.5d) / scale;

here is my answer:

double num = 4.898979485566356;
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.##");      
time = Double.valueOf(df.format(num));

System.out.println(num); // 4.89

I have used bellow like in java 8. it is working for me

    double amount = 1000.431;        
    NumberFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("##.00");
    String output = formatter.format(amount);
    System.out.println("output = " + output);

Output:

output = 1000.43

the following method could be used if need double

double getRandom(int decimalPoints) {
    double a = Math.random();
    int multiplier = (int) Math.pow(10, decimalPoints);
    int b = (int) (a * multiplier);
    return b / (double) multiplier;
}

for example getRandom(2)

1. In order to have trailing 0s up to 5th position

DecimalFormat decimalFormatter = new DecimalFormat("#.00000");
decimalFormatter.format(0.350500); // result 0.350500

2. In order to avoid trailing 0s up to 5th position

DecimalFormat decimalFormatter= new DecimalFormat("#.#####");
decimalFormatter.format(0.350500); // result o.3505

public static double formatDecimal(double amount) {
    BigDecimal amt = new BigDecimal(amount);
    amt = amt.divide(new BigDecimal(1), 2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_EVEN);
    return amt.doubleValue();
}

Test using Junit

@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
public class DecimalValueParameterizedTest {

  @Parameterized.Parameter
  public double amount;

  @Parameterized.Parameter(1)
  public double expectedValue;

@Parameterized.Parameters
public static List<Object[]> dataSets() {
    return Arrays.asList(new Object[][]{
            {1000.0, 1000.0},
            {1000, 1000.0},
            {1000.00000, 1000.0},
            {1000.01, 1000.01},
            {1000.1, 1000.10},
            {1000.001, 1000.0},
            {1000.005, 1000.0},
            {1000.007, 1000.01},
            {1000.999, 1001.0},
            {1000.111, 1000.11}
    });
}

@Test
public void testDecimalFormat() {
    Assert.assertEquals(expectedValue, formatDecimal(amount), 0.00);
}

A simple way to compare if it is limited number of decimal places. Instead of DecimalFormat, Math or BigDecimal, we can use Casting!

Here is the sample,

public static boolean threeDecimalPlaces(double value1, double value2){
    boolean isEqual = false;
    // value1 = 3.1756 
    // value2 = 3.17
    //(int) (value1 * 1000) = 3175
    //(int) (value2 * 1000) = 3170

    if ((int) (value1 * 1000) == (int) (value2 * 1000)){
        areEqual = true;
    }

    return isEqual;
}

Very simple method

public static double round(double value, int places) {
    if (places < 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException();

    DecimalFormat deciFormat = new DecimalFormat();
    deciFormat.setMaximumFractionDigits(places);
    String newValue = deciFormat.format(value);

    return Double.parseDouble(newValue);

}

double a = round(12.36545, 2);

There is a problem with the Math.round solution when trying to round to a negative number of decimal places. Consider the code

long l = 10;
for(int dp = -1; dp > -10; --dp) {
    double mul = Math.pow(10,dp);
    double res = Math.round(l * mul) / mul;
    System.out.println(""+l+" rounded to "+dp+" dp = "+res);
    l *=10;
}

this has the results

10 rounded to -1 dp = 10.0
100 rounded to -2 dp = 100.0
1000 rounded to -3 dp = 1000.0
10000 rounded to -4 dp = 10000.0
100000 rounded to -5 dp = 99999.99999999999
1000000 rounded to -6 dp = 1000000.0
10000000 rounded to -7 dp = 1.0E7
100000000 rounded to -8 dp = 1.0E8
1000000000 rounded to -9 dp = 9.999999999999999E8

The problem with -5 decimal places occur when dividing 1 by 1.0E-5 which is inexact.

This can be fixed using

double mul = Math.pow(10,dp);
double res;
if(dp < 0 ) {
    double div = Math.pow(10,-dp);
    res = Math.round(l * mul) *div;
} else {
    res = Math.round(l * mul) / mul;
}

But this is another reason to use the BigDecimal methods.

This was the simplest way I found to display only two decimal places.

double x = 123.123;
System.out.printf( "%.2f", x );