working with decimal numbers in php

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Published on 2010-05-17T11:26:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 11:30 UTC
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I want to somehow round the numbers for a rating system in php like this:

4.6667 = 4.6

5.0001 = 5.1

is there any way to do that? (BTW i read the datas from a database)

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