Truncate a floating point number without rounding up

ruby math floating-point decimal precision

You can also convert to a BigDecimal, and call truncate on it.

1.237.to_d.truncate(2).to_f # will return 1.23

ruby math floating-point decimal precision

Assuming you have a float, try this:

(x * 1000).floor / 1000.0

Result:

1.015

See it working online: ideone

ruby math floating-point decimal precision

Since ruby 2.4 Float#truncate method takes as an optional argument a number of decimal digits:

1.0155555555555555.truncate(3)# => 1.015

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