Rounding decimals using place value counters Take a look at these place value counters representing 2.64. You can use the counters to work out whether you should round up or down to the nearest tenth.

To round a number to a given number of decimal places, look at the number in the next decimal place. If it's less than 5, round down. If it's 5 or more, round up.

Type the number of decimal places to which you want to round up the number immediately after the comma. Use "0" to round to the next whole number. For example, if you enter "=ROUNDUP ...

Calculate the entries in each category to the specified number of decimal places, up to a maximum of three. For example, some entries may have a portion of a cent, such as $4.375.

The most basic function for rounding numbers in Calc is ROUND. This function will round off a number according to the usual rules of symmetric arithmetic rounding: a decimal place of .4 or less gets ...