Rounding is often done to obtain a value that is easier to report and communicate than the original.
Rounding means replacing a number with an approximate value that has a shorter, simpler, or more explicit representation. In the SVG file, hover over a method to highlight it and, in SMIL-enabled browsers, click to select or deselect it.
For clarity, the graphs are shown displaced from integer y values. Graphs of the result, y, of rounding x using different methods.