# Question about round?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-about-round/81479
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [May 23, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-about-round/81479 "2022-05-23T01:27:10Z")
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### Author: ![Raymond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raymond/32/36557_2.png) [@Raymond](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Raymond)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-about-round/81479/1 "2022-05-23T01:27:10Z")

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Dear all,

In Matlab ,

```julia
>> round(2.5)

ans =

     3

```

But in Julia,

```julia
julia> round(2.5)
2.0

```

If I want to get the same result which is from Matlab, how to write the code in Julia?

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### Author: ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-about-round/81479/2 "2022-05-23T01:30:39Z")

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```julia
julia> round(2.5, RoundNearestTiesAway)
3.0

```

see also: [IEEE 754 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Roundings_to_nearest)

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### Author: ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 1:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-about-round/81479/3 "2022-05-23T01:31:51Z")

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Julia defaults to round ties to even. You can use `round(x, RoundDown)` to round to take the floor. The rounding modes are `RoundDown`,`RoundNearestTiesUp`,`RoundUp`,`RoundFromZero`,`RoundNearestTiesAway`, and ` RoundToZero`

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### Author: ![Raymond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raymond/32/36557_2.png) [@Raymond](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Raymond)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-about-round/81479/4 "2022-05-23T01:33:12Z")

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@Oscar_Smith @jling Thank you very much for both of your help.