that the number is not rounded but truncated to 0, as the int documentation will tell you.

You can get around the truncation problem fairly easily with: 

$string = int( ($number * 100) + 5 ) / 100;

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Update: Well Alright then for the pedantic among us, see below ;-) (no offence meant, please don't take any) 
my $dec = 100;  # Change as appropriate to give you the number
                # of decimal places you want

int( ($number * $dec) +
  int($number * $dec) % 2 ? 0.5 * $dec : 0) / $dec

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That should sort out the rounding towards an even number.

Nuance

In reply to RE: Methods to format a number by nuance
in thread Numbers.... by Anonymous Monk

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