round number
Noun
Meaning
A number whose decimal representation ends in one or more zeroes.
A rough approximation, especially one whose decimal representation ends in one or more zeroes.
In round numbers, the population of the nearest city is about 90,000.
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Examples
A marker is used to mark which player is East and often the round number.
Gold proved it a couple of days ago — what you have to have is a new nominal high, which we had in gold, and now we’re getting that round number of US$2,000,” said the publisher of the Morgan Report.
It's a nice round number and I'm driven by numbers.'
That might seem like a lot, but with 11 million cars sold in the process, and taking a guess and using a round number of $20,000 for each new car sold, it adds up to in car sales just for these diesel automobiles.
"That said, you know, I think five years is a nice round number on this one.
Rounding these downward to an integer gives categories between very "round numbers", rounding them to the nearest integer and applying the inverse function gives the "nearest" round number.