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 ...

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.

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 ...

Rounding is conditional, depending on the need for significant figures. Different contexts might lead to different rounding ...