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Review
So you think you can count?
Rounding functions and more
20. The TRUNC() function
Review and practice

## Instruction

Good. Another function to practice is TRUNC(). It always rounds towards zero. As with ROUND(), there are two variants of TRUNC():

• The single-argument TRUNC(x) takes a number of type numeric or double precision.
• The two-argument TRUNC(x, p) takes an additional integer p argument which defines the number of decimal places.

Take a look at the example:

SELECT
name,
TRUNC(weight)    AS weight_no_decimal_places,
TRUNC(weight, 1) AS weight_one_decimal_place
FROM character;


But there's a catch! The same which was true for the ROUND() function. The query above won't work because you may define the number of decimal places only for the numeric types, so you should cast the value:

SELECT
name,
TRUNC(weight)             AS weight_no_decimal_places,
TRUNC(weight::numeric, 1) AS weight_one_decimal_place
FROM character;


Result:

name weight_no_decimal_places weight_one_decimal_place
Kav 65.0 65.0
Gniok 101.0 101.4
... ... ...

## Exercise

Show the character's name together with its account_balance, and the account balance truncated to one decimal place as the truncated_balance.

### Stuck? Here's a hint!

You'll need to convert real data type to numeric:

TRUNC(account_balance::numeric, 1) AS truncated_balance