math – How can I round down a number in Javascript?

math – How can I round down a number in Javascript?

Using Math.floor() is one way of doing this.

More information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Math/floor

Round towards negative infinity – Math.floor()

+3.5 => +3.0
-3.5 => -4.0

Round towards zero can be done using Math.trunc(). Older browsers do not support this function. If you need to support these, you can use Math.ceil() for negative numbers and Math.floor() for positive numbers.

+3.5 => +3.0 using Math.floor()
-3.5 => -3.0 using Math.ceil()

math – How can I round down a number in Javascript?

Math.floor() will work, but its very slow compared to using a bitwise OR operation:

var rounded = 34.923 | 0;
alert( rounded );
//alerts 34

EDIT Math.floor() is not slower than using the | operator. Thanks to Jason S for checking my work.

Heres the code I used to test:

var a = [];
var time = new Date().getTime();
for( i = 0; i < 100000; i++ ) {
    //a.push( Math.random() * 100000  | 0 );
    a.push( Math.floor( Math.random() * 100000 ) );
}
var elapsed = new Date().getTime() - time;
alert( elapsed time:  + elapsed );