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<p>This function rounds a number to a specified number of decimal places.</p>
<b>Syntax</b>
<p>The format of the $ROUND function is:    </p>
<p class="code">$ROUND(number, places) 
</p>
<p>where:</p>
<ul>
<li>number is the number to be rounded.</li>
</li>
<li>places is the number of significant decimal places to which the number should be rounded. </li>
</li>
</ul>
<p>$ROUND returns the first argument, rounded to the number of decimal places specified in the second argument. If the second argument is negative, $ROUND returns the first argument unaltered and prints an error message. Omitted arguments are set to zero.</p>
<b>Example</b>
<p class="code">$ROUND(200.565, 2) equals 200.57
$ROUND(200.565, 0) equals 201
$ROUND(200.565) equals 201
$ROUND(-200.565, 1) equals -200.6
$ROUND(-200.565, 2) equals -200.57   
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