`Math.Truncate`

This C# method eliminates numbers after the decimal. It acts upon a decimal or floating-point number, calculating the integral part of a number.

Math.Truncate is reliable and easy to use. Its functionality differs from Math.Round. Sometimes casting to int can truncate a number effectively as well.

Example

This program calls the Math.Truncate method on a decimal and double. The Math.Truncate overloads called in this program are implemented differently in .NET.

Info You can see that the decimal 1.223 was truncated to 1, and the double 2.913 was truncated to 2.

Also The value 2.9 is not rounded up to 3. You would want Math.Round for this functionality.

using System;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        decimal a = 1.223M;
        double b = 2.913;

        // Truncate the decimal and double, receiving new numbers.
        decimal result1 = Math.Truncate(a);
        double result2 = Math.Truncate(b);

        // Print the results.
        Console.WriteLine(result1);
        Console.WriteLine(result2);
    }
}1
2

Discussion

There are some other ways you can truncate numbers. If you have a double value and cast it to an int, you can erase all the values past the decimal place.

Info This is an optimization, but it does not always work. You must be careful to only use casting where it yields the correct result.

Detail This version would fail in certain cases such as with large doubles. In other cases it would be faster.

// These two statements sometimes provide the same result.
b = Math.Truncate(b);
b = (double)(int)b;

We explored the Math.Truncate method. This method erases all the numbers past the decimal place in a double or decimal number type.