Doubt in math.round

[Dhivya rajagopal]

public class RoundMath {
   public static void main(String args[])
   {
       float f4 = -5.5f; 
float f5 = 5.5f; 
float f6 = -5.49f; 
float f7 = 5.49f; 
System.out.println("Round f4 is " + Math.round(f4)); 
System.out.println("Round f5 is " + Math.round(f5)); 
System.out.println("Round f6 is " + Math.round(f6)); 
System.out.println("Round f7 is " + Math.round(f7)); 

   }
}

The following is the output for the above program
Round f4 is -5
Round f5 is 6
Round f6 is -5
Round f7 is 5
My doubt is how -5 became the output for f4?
can you please tell me

[Rob Spoor]

When a value's decimal part is exactly 0.5, it's rounded up (as specified in the Javadoc comments). For negative numbers this means towards 0. For positive numbers this means away from 0.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Rob Spoor wrote: . . . as specified in the Javadoc comments . . .

It isn’t at all clear in the Javadoc comments. If you find the Java6 version, it says

Returns the closest long to the argument. The result is rounded to an integer by adding 1/2, taking the floor of the result, and casting the result to type long. In other words, the result is equal to the value of the expression:

(long)Math.floor(a + 0.5d)

. . . but the Java7 version says

with ties rounding up.

I think the old version was much easier to understand.

[Ifteqar Ald]

What is the Major difference between Math.Round and Math.Floor Functions?

[Paul Clapham]

saahil gupta wrote:What is the Major difference between Math.Round and Math.Floor Functions?

0 or 1.

[Jeff Verdegan]

saahil gupta wrote:What is the Major difference between Math.Round and Math.Floor Functions?

When you read the docs for both, what part didn't you understand?

When you executed round() and floor() on 1.0, 1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, and 1.9, which output did not make sense to you?

[fred rosenberger]

saahil gupta wrote:What is the Major difference between Math.Round and Math.Floor Functions?

directly from the API:

round:
Returns the closest long to the argument.

Floor:
Returns the largest (closest to positive infinity) double value that is less than or equal to the argument and is equal to a mathematical integer

[dennis deems]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:I think the old version was much easier to understand.

I think the new version is much easier to understand; moreover the old version is decidedly too much information. Documentation should tell me in no uncertain terms what result I will get, to be sure; but it should not lay bare the procedure employed to reach that result.