From: Niklas Holsti <nholsti@icon.fi>
Subject: Re: Type Conversion
Date: 1998/11/06
Date: 1998-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36436189.83A0E296@icon.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: asmang-0311980928100001@192.168.0.22
Arun Mangalam wrote:
>
> In article <71lbsu$1ps@morgan.vf.lmco.com>, Michael Kaufman
> <michael.f.kaufman@lmco.com> wrote:
> >
> >Note that the cast from float to integer will round.
> >
>
> So, if A_Float contains the number 10.5 initially, A_Integer will equal
> 11? I am asking because with my C background I would have thought
> A_Integer would equal 10, because in C the fractions are truncated out.
Yep, Integer(10.5) = 11, because rounding a value that is exactly
half-way
between two integers is defined to round away from zero.
If you want to truncate, use Float'Truncation(10.5). Similar functions
for 'Floor and 'Ceiling and so on are also available.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-01 0:00 Type Conversion Heather Wright
1998-11-01 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-01 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-11-02 0:00 ` Michael Kaufman
1998-11-03 0:00 ` Arun Mangalam
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
1998-11-02 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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2014-10-11 23:56 type conversion compguy45
2014-10-12 0:07 ` compguy45
2014-10-12 0:25 ` compguy45
2014-10-12 0:33 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-12 0:38 ` compguy45
2014-10-12 3:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-12 2:32 ` Shark8
2014-10-12 4:53 ` Anh Vo
2014-10-12 4:57 ` Shark8
2014-10-12 5:41 ` Anh Vo
2014-10-12 6:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-12 9:37 ` Pascal Obry
2014-10-12 11:54 ` compguy45
2014-10-12 23:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-10-13 5:40 ` Pascal Obry
2014-10-13 7:26 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-13 22:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-10-12 9:16 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-12 21:05 ` Shark8
2014-10-12 9:31 ` Simon Wright
1997-12-08 0:00 Type Conversion Nick Davies
1997-12-08 0:00 ` John English
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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