The excel floor function is one of fifteen rounding functions in excel.
Excel floor 1.
The excel floor function rounds a supplied number towards zero to the nearest multiple of a specified significance.
This function has been replaced with one or more new functions that may provide improved accuracy and whose names better reflect their usage.
Rounds number down toward zero to the nearest multiple of significance.
The excel floor math function will round a number down to the nearest integer or given multiple of significance.
The excel round function returns a number rounded to a given number of digits.
The tutorial explains the uses of round roundup rounddown floor ceiling mround and other excel rounding functions and provides formula examples to round decimal numbers to integers or to a certain number of decimal places extract a fractional part round to nearest 5 10 or 100 and more.
Positive numbers with decimal values are rounded down to the nearest integer e g.
The multiple to use for rounding is provided as the significance argument.
It can be used as a worksheet function ws in excel.
The floor function is a built in function in excel that is categorized as a math trig function.
The round function can round to the right or left of the decimal point.
Vba does not have a floor math function equivalent either.
A full list along with comparison tables is provided on the excel rounding functions page.
A reminder of the syntax of the excel worksheet floor math function.
This function is still available.
By default floor math rounds to the nearest integer using a significance of 1.
If the number is already an exact multiple no rounding occurs and the original number is returned.
The microsoft excel floor function returns a number rounded down based on a multiple of significance.
The excel floor function rounds a number down to a given multiple.
Floor works like the mround function but floor always rounds down.
As a worksheet function the floor function can be entered as part of a formula in a cell of a.
Floor function in excel is very similar to the rounddown function as it rounds down the number to its significance for example if we have number as 10 and the significance is 3 the output would be 9 this function takes two arguments as an input one is a number while other is the significance value.
You also can use this formula mround a2 15 60 24 to round time to nearest minute.
6 7 is rounded down to 6 while negative numbers with decimal values.
However once again if you want to round a number down to the nearest integer or to the nearest specified multiple of significance then you can call the floor math worksheet function from vba.
In the format cells dialog selecting time in category list selecting a time type in type list and clicking ok.
The excel floor function rounds a given number down to the nearest specified multiple.
