How to round a number to 2 decimal places?

[iBuzzes (Ryan)]

How to round a number to 2 decimal places?

For example, if the number is:
0.628321

then it would become:
0.62

[Volieb (Vinny)]

Hi there! This is how you would achieve this:

local places = 2 -- the amount of decimal places
local number = 0.628321

local mult = 10^places
number=math.floor(number*mult)/mult -- 0.62

[Forummer]

With math:

print(math.round(number * 100)/100)

Without math:

print(string.format("%.2f", number))

[sau2000]

The way @Volieb mentioned works but I would this module.

[31.0] FormatNumber - A module for formatting numbers

This is an all-in-one number formatting module designed for displaying numbers in a more user friendly way. It is not designed for internationlization but there are enough features so if you want a basic internationlization (no unit formatting, RBNF or something like that but a basic decimal comma and point change with Symbols but keep in mind that this is not documented here), it’ll work just fine. Why this module? Aside from being the more known module (with over 100 likes), this is a solid …